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Summary

A rectangular two-storey cottage just north of Leigh Cross is called 'Turnpike Cottage and may have been a tollhouse, though there is no evidence that this was ever a turnpike road.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX88NW/50
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX88NW31

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• TOLL HOUSE (Built, XVIII to XIX - 1751 AD (Between) to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

Kanefsky, J., 1976, Devon Tollhouses, 31 (Monograph). SDV7980.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1980, SX88NW31 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV305867.

Located on the west side of the B3193 just to the north of Leigh Cross, Turnpike Cottage may have been a toll house for the Newton Abbot Trust, although there is no evidence that this was a turnpike road. The upper storey of the cottage is level with the road and has a blocked up porch (citing Kanefsky 1976).

Kanefsky, J., 1984, Devon Toll Houses (Pamphlet). SDV349663.

Just north of Leigh Cross on the eastern branch of the B3193 Newton Abbot to Dunsford road, one mile south of the B3312 Dartmoor road. A rectangular two-storey cottage on the west side of the road, the upper storey is level with the road and has a blocked-up porch. It is called Turnpike Cottage but there is no evidence that this was ever a turnpike road.

Rosevear, A., 2008, Devon Tollhouses (Un-published). SDV351734.

Turnpike Cottage, a 19th century building on an open stretch of road on the B3193.

Ordnance Survey, 2015, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV357601.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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