Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
24757
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/02/2001
Date of Amendment
14/02/2001
Name of Property
Turnpike Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
St. Arvans
Town
Chepstow
Locality
St. Arvans
Easting
351852
Northing
196486
Street Side
W
Location
Located at the junction of the A466 and the Devauden Road.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
This toll cottage was built as a part of the new Chepstow to Monmouth turnpike which was opened in 1829. The road was built jointly by the trustees of both town trusts, but the south end would have been in the care of the Chepstow Trust. The trusts were wound up in 1873 and responsibility was passed to the Chepstow Highways Board and later to Monmouthshire County Council. It was at this point that the new road branched off from the Devauden Road which was the way to Tintern and Monmouth at that time. Another toll house survives on this road at Bigsweir Bridge (now altered), and a more elaborate one on the outskirts of Chepstow (qv). The St. Arvans toll-house has been modernised and re-windowed in the late C20.
Exterior
The cottage is rendered and painted throughout, probably over rubble stone and has a Welsh slate roof. It is in a Tudor Gothic style and is of two storeys, with the gable end to the street. This has a canted bay on the ground floor with small single light windows looking up and down the road, and a larger 2-light casement looking across the road, this last would have been the main door for attending to the gate. Chimney stack on the rear gable with a small later extension. All these have dripmoulds as does the 3-light casement in the gable above. Scalloped bargeboards to the gable. The south elevation has two gables, also with scalloped bargeboards, all the windows are 2-light casements, with dripmoulds below and plain above. All the windows on both elevations are modern double glazed units with lattice panes. The north elevation has a small modern outshut and a trefoil dormer in the roof above.
Interior
Not seen at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as a turnpike house dating from 1829 which, despite some alterations, still retains its character.
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