Bath Road Toll House, Tetbury
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Visit websiteThe principal structure is thought to have been built for the Cirencester Turnpike Trust in the 19th century in the form of a lodge house with protruding front. Its external features consist of two-storeys on a canted bay front floor plan, having a hipped, hip over bay, slate roof, with walls mainly of squared stone. It has attractive Gothic arch headed windows with casements, a blocked front with a window replacing the doorway. There is an oriel window over what was a hooded porch, which is now converted to a window. The house appears to be two attached buildings, both from the turnpike era.
By road: On A433 on the southern edge of Tetbury.
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Turnpikes - Toll House Architecture