Turnpike Cottage
TURNPIKE COTTAGE, BRISTOL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382879
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Turnpike Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TURNPIKE COTTAGE, BRISTOL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382879
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Turnpike Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TURNPIKE COTTAGE, BRISTOL HILL
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, BRISTOL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wells
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 55070 46596
Details
WELLS
ST54NE BRISTOL HILL
662-1/2/9 (West side)
13/09/72 Turnpike Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
BRISTOL ROAD
Turnpike Cottage)
II
Toll house. Probably early C19, extended late C20. Local
stone, rendered, with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs
between stepped coped gables, one brick and one stone chimney
stack. Tudor Revival style. T-plan, with rear extension of
1990.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, south elevation, at right angles to the
road of 2 bays, bay 1 being the projecting gable of the
crosswing. Simple casement windows with rectangular-leaded
panes and with labels over, 2-light to ground floor bay 1 and
upper bay 2, and single-light to upper bay 1, lower bay 2 has
a part glazed door set under a leanto porch with hipped slate
roof on 2 timber posts at east end. East roadside gable has a
2-light window to first floor. North elevation has projection
bay 2, 2-light window lower bay 1, the gable of bay 2 being
extended and the upper window being incorporated in extension
gable.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Erected by the Wells Trust, this is on the site of the
Stoberry Gate on the Bristol Road, set up c1753. The tollboard
from this gate now in Wells Museum.
(Bentley JB and Murless BJ: Somerset Roads: Phase 2, Eastern
Somerset: Taunton: 1987-).
Listing NGR: ST5507046596
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483265
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bentley, J B, Murless, B J, Somerset Roads: Phase 2, Eastern Somerset, (1987)
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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