Description

ST51NE YEOVIL WITHOUT CP MUDFORD ROAD (South & East side)

2/124 No 198
(Toll house) with boundary walls,
gate and railings

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- II

Turnpike Lodge, circa 1850. Local stone cut, squared and coursed. Ham stone
dressings; plain clay tiled roof with fish-scale bands, between coped gables.
Asymmetric plan, Tudor-Gothic style. One storey with attic and two storeys,
mullioned windows with labels and cast iron lattice casements, Two bays treated
separately; left-hand lower; C20 bay window to ground floor replacing former
entrance and bay window. Entrance now to North East. To Mudford Road a 2-storey
return wing and a stepped chimney. Interior much altered. Front (North and East)
boundary has low stone wall, with cast iron railings and gates, the latter with
flour-de-lys finials. Said to replace earlier toll house closer to town and to
have dual purpose as Stockyard gate to nearby brickworks. Originally similar to
Newton Street House (Newton Lodge, Yeovil C.P., qv). Source - early photograph,
Private collection.

Listing NGR: ST5579717739

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26468663

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)