Description

TEIGNGRACE TEIGNBRIDGE CROSSING
SX 87 SE

8/226 Railway Crossing Keeper's
- Cottage
GV II

Railway level crossing keeper's cottage. Circa 1866. Stuccoed brick with
rusticated stucco quoins. Welsh slate roof with gabled ends with overhanging
verges and eaves cornice. Italianate style. T-shaped on plan. Single storey. 2-
window front facing railway track with segmental headed windows boarded over.
Doorway at north end to road, with chamfered and stopped jambs and flat arch.
Slightly lower gable-ended wing at rear (west). Rendered chimneystack at centre of
main roof ridge.
The South Devon Railway Company's Newton Abbot to Moretonhampstead line was opened
4th July 1866. The Teign Valley branch from Heathfield to Ashton was opened in
1882 and extended to Exeter in 1883.
Reference: David St John Thomas, "A Regional History of the Railways of Great
Britain, Volume I, The West Country", pp. 87 and 88.

Listing NGR: SX8562673278

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389646

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