Eastham'S Gate Farmhouse

Eastham's Gate Farmhouse is a former toll house that has been converted into a farmhouse. It dates from the early 19th century and was extended later in the 19th century. The building is constructed from cut and squared ham stone and features hipped Welsh slate roofs, with a plain gable on the rear extension and brick chimney stacks.

The farmhouse has two storeys and a two-bay roadside elevation. The first bay includes a double chamfered projection. The windows are pointed arched with 'Y'-traceried casements and diamond leaded glass. There are three windows on the first floor of the first bay and two on the chamfered faces of the ground floor. To the left of the upper bay two, there is a segmental-arched recess with a sill, likely intended for a toll-charge board. On the ground floor of the centre bay one, there are signs of a blocked doorway that once had a shallow-pitched roofed porch. The south-west side elevation also shows signs of a similar blocked doorway and a blocked window above it.

The rear extension has a single bay with 6-pane sash windows, and to the right, there is a studded boarded 20th-century door set within a late 19th-century open porch. The north-east elevation features matching sash windows in the extension and two lean-to buildings. The interior has not been seen. This section of the old London-Exeter Road was turnpiked by the Chard Trust in 1753 and later transferred to the smaller Crewkarne Trust in 1825. The road immediately to the north-east was diverted in 1831, suggesting that this toll house likely dates from that period.