91 Cheltenham Road is the old turnpike house which used to stand at the junction of the roads out of Cirencester towards to Gloucester and Cheltenham. It was dismantled and re-erected in its present location in the 1880s.
The road from Cirencester to Gloucester via Stratton was turnpiked as early as 1747. In 1812-13 it is recorded that the Salutation tollgate (named after the Salutation Inn in Albion Street) collected £175. Following the creation of the Cirencester United Roads Trust in 1825, the gate also served the new turnpike road to Cheltenham. Here is the toll house still in situ in the late 19th century (in David & Linda Viner, Cirencester from Old Photographs, 2016.):
References
British Listed Buildings - 91, Cheltenham Road, Stratton
Article on theCirencester turnpikes published in the Standard in 2014
Glos Archives: Plan for a Cirencester to Cheltenham turnpike road, 1824
VCH Glos. Cirencester 1825-1945 [Section on roads by David Viner]
