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Tollhouse to Teahouse

SX8769 : Overgrown cottage at Langford Bridge SX8769 : Langford Bridge Tollhouse by Kingskerswell Road SX8769 : South Devon lanes SX8769 : Langford Bridge and ruined house beyond SX8769 : Langford Bridge SX8769 : Langford Bridge SX8769 : Former teahouse, Langford Bridge SX8769 : Former teahouse, Langdon Bridge SX8769 : Vanished buildings, Langford Bridge SX8769 : Priory Road off Kingskerswell Road

Old maps name it Langfordbridge Cottage.

Alan Rosevear writes:
"The principal structure is thought to have been built for the Dartmouth, Torquay and Shaldon Turnpike Trust in the 19th century in the form of a lodge house with protruding front. Currently derelict and unoccupied (was domestic) property with only minor changes to the original tollhouse structure on the UC, Newton Abbot to Torquay road.
External features; two-storeys on canted bay front floor plan, having a hipped, hip over bay, roof, with walls mainly of rough stone, roofed in slate, square headed windows with casements, an open porch with a square headed doorway; lean-to at side and back (also derelict), brick chimney stack. This building is abandoned, boarded up and overgrown with ivy. The doorway, with an old corrugated iron porch, opens directly onto a very dangerous junction. There appears to be an old window opening above the porch. It is unlikely that this building will be renovated given the dilapidated state and position within a steep bank on a narrow lane. " .

Derek Harper gives local knowledge of a Tea Room in SX8769 : Overgrown cottage at Langford Bridge. One wonders where the customers put their bicycles, they surely can't have arrived by car.