Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26461855

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings