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Latitude: 50.6475 / 50°38'51"N
Longitude: -3.5454 / 3°32'43"W
OS Eastings: 290836
OS Northings: 84231
OS Grid: SX908842
Mapcode National: GBR P0.VVCD
Mapcode Global: FRA 37GC.8LJ
Plus Code: 9C2RJFX3+2R
Entry Name: Turnpike Cottage
Listing Date: 2 December 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1168610
English Heritage Legacy ID: 85813
ID on this website: 101168610
Location: Teignbridge, Devon, EX6
County: Devon
District: Teignbridge
Civil Parish: Kenn
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Kenn St Andrew
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
Tagged with: Cottage
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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
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