Turnpike Cottage
TURNPIKE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168610
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Turnpike Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TURNPIKE COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 2001-12-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/05348/32
- Rights:
- © Mr Ernie W. King. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168610
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Turnpike Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TURNPIKE COTTAGE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TURNPIKE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kenn
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 90836 84231
Details
KENN SX 98 SW
5/146 Turnpike Cottage
II
Toll house. Built 1842 on the new road from the Torquay road to the Plymouth road, opened 1823 (Kanefsky). Whitewashed and rendered, probably sandstone, with granite dressings ; wooden shingle roof peaked over the front, asbestos slate roof to lean-to at right end ; large projecting rendered stack at left end with a brick shaft, second, smaller, left end stack behind projecting stack. Gothick style. Plan: 2 room plan toll-house, the front room 3-sided to the front, the rear room probably a service room. The building has been extended at the right end with a lean-to. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical front with a 3-sided projection and lean-to porch with a plank front door, arched timber inner door to porch. First floor centre granite-framed window with a triangular head and small panes including arched glazing bars in the head, similar ground floor windows flank the porch, one to each of the canted sides with iron stanchions. The projecting left end stack is flanked by buttresses. Interior: Limestone paved floor survives in the front room as does the arched cut stone lintel of the principal fireplace which is partly blocked. The road, built by the Plymouth and Exeter Road Trust, was built in 1823 (Kanefsky).
Kanefsky, J. Devon Tollhouses (1976), p. 23.
Listing NGR: SX9083684231
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85813
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kanefsky, J, Devon Tollhouses, (1976), 23
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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