Description

TEWKESBURY

SO83SE A438, The Mythe
859-1/2/390 (East side)
27/07/73 Turnpike shelter at east end of
Mythe Bridge
(Formerly Listed as:
THE MYTHE
Turnpike Shelter (facing the
Tollhouse) Mythe Bridge)

GV II

Shelter for toll keeper. 1826. Probably from Telford's studio.
Sandstone, slate roof. A small polygonal structure at the
downstream side of bridge at its E end, opposite the Toll
House (qv). It is carried down to lower bank level beyond
roadway; heavily overgrown at time of survey (July 1991). The
work above road level is in ashlar, but below is coursed lias.
A central panelled door in 4-centred arch is flanked on splays
by small side lights. Hipped roof. The former toll gates
reputed to be at Bredon, Worcs.

Listing NGR: SO8892233734

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496909

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)