Demolished cottage (021/00669/FUL) consisted of a small one-and-a-half storey cottage of two bays with a pitched roof of English tiles; it is built of brick and rendered on the north, east and west elevations. The south side (rear) is painted white. It has one chimney at its northern end, also rendered and painted white. Later additions include outshut extensions to the south and east sides and paired dormer windows inserted into the southern pitch of the roof for the two bedrooms. Buggins Cottage, provides physical evidence of the evolution of an initially tenant-held tollbooth constructed in association with the turnpike road in 1773 and incrementally extended until it was sold to a private individual in the early 1870s. Its name is attributable to a family who are known to have occupied the cottage in around 1910, when a Thomas Buggins is listed as owner for the purposes of the 1910 Land Tax survey. Initial recording, coupled with close observation of the demolition of the building, and documentary evidence for an extensive alteration programme in 1973 have allowed for the original plan form of the building to be identified, along with two subsequent phases of extension. No earlier fabric than that which can be reasonably attributed a late 18th-century date was encountered – thus identifying the original L-plan structure as a tollkeeper’s cottage built for collecting tolls on the Bingham Turnpike road at the junction of the Fosse Way with Chapel Lane, exactly mid-way between Nottingham and Newark (which lie ten miles distant in each direction). Buggins Cottage provides physical evidence of the evolution of an initially tenant-held tollbooth constructed in association with the turnpike road in 1773 and incrementally extended until it was sold to a private individual in the early 1870s. Its name is attributable to a family who are known to have occupied the cottage in around 1910, when a Thomas Buggins is listed as owner for the purposes of the 1910 Land Tax survey. Buggins Cottage has lost all of its primary fixtures and fittings; however, the surviving layout, quality of construction and history of alteration has allowed it to be recorded as a surviving example of a late 18th-century tollkeeper’s cottage associated with a period of transport and communications history which pre-dates the spread of the railway network. This building survey has recorded and provided an archive of Buggins Cottage to preserve it by record prior to its demolition and the consequent loss of historic evidence contained in its fabric. (1)

<1> PCAS Archaeology, 2025, Buggins Cottage, Chapel Lane, Bingham, Nottinghamshire: Historic Building Survey by PCAS 2025 (Unpublished document). SNT6039.