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© Mrs Gillian Reed
IoE Number:
374151
Location:
SNOWDON TURNPIKE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET (south side)
CHARD TOWN, SOUTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mrs Gillian Reed
Date Photographed:
12 February 2003
Date listed:
24 March 1950
Date of last amendment:
24 March 1950
Grade
II
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CHARD
ST3108 HIGH STREET
756-1/3/122 (South side)
24/03/50 Snowdon Turnpike Cottage
II
Tollhouse. 1838-9. Limestone dressings to whole flint facade
and rubblestone returns; thatched roof with central diagonal
stack. Single storey, 2-window range. Front, facing east, is a
canted bay with pointed window arches flanking studded wooden
door in pointed arch. Returns have pointed-arched windows
toward front and square windows toward rear, west. All windows
are shuttered. Thatched hipped roof has wide boarded eaves
supported by rustic posts. INTERIOR not inspected. This road
was built as a loop at a lower gradient than the former road.