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Latitude: 51.4797 / 51°28'46"N
Longitude: -2.4729 / 2°28'22"W
OS Eastings: 367254
OS Northings: 175739
OS Grid: ST672757
Mapcode National: GBR JW.L4MT
Mapcode Global: VH88Q.320J
Plus Code: 9C3VFGHG+VR
Entry Name: Mangotsfield North Station and Tramway Tollhouse
Listing Date: 14 December 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1320002
English Heritage Legacy ID: 350667
ID on this website: 101320002
Location: Shortwood, South Gloucestershire, BS16
County: South Gloucestershire
Civil Parish: Pucklechurch
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire
Church of England Parish: Mangotsfield
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: Architectural structure
The following building shall be added to the list:-
ST 67 NE MANGOTSFIELD RURAL Mangotsfield North Station
2/10003 and Tramway Tollhouse
II
Tollhouse and railway station. Tollhouse c1830, built at
junction of the Avon and Gloucester and Bristol and
Gloucestershire tramways; railway station built 1844 for the
Bristol and Gloucestershire Company. Coursed and dressed lias
with ashlar sills and lintels; gabled Welsh slate roof with
stone stacks and carved bargeboards to station building, and
pyramidal Welsh slate roof to toll house. Domestic Tudor style.
2 storeys. Main NW elevation of 2-window range with label moulds
over first-floor windows to left-hand gabled projection with
Tudor-arched doorway and to large central gabled projection with
coved cornice to shallow bay window. This central gabled bay is
flanked by Tudor-arched doorways; that to right is in lean-to,
which adjoins tollhouse with lintels over openings to front
canted bay. Interior not inspected but noted as having retained
original plan form and some joinery. The horse tramways were
built after 1828 in order to supply coal from Orchard Colliery
in Coalpit Heath to Bristol and Bath. The railway station of
1844 was built to serve the first dual gauge railway in Britain,
the Bristol and Gloucester having converted their tramway to a
railway: the line was sold to the Midland Company in 1845.
Listing NGR: ST6725475739
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