Eastham's Gate Farmhouse
EASTHAM'S GATE FARMHOUSE, YEOVIL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175721
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Eastham's Gate Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- EASTHAM'S GATE FARMHOUSE, YEOVIL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175721
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Eastham's Gate Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- EASTHAM'S GATE FARMHOUSE, YEOVIL ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- EASTHAM'S GATE FARMHOUSE, YEOVIL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Merriott
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 45624 10652
Details
ST41SE MERRIOTT CP YEOVIL ROAD (North side)
3/161 Eastham's Gate Farmhouse
GV II
Former toll house, now farmhouse. Early C19 extended later C19. Ham stone cut and squared; hipped Welsh slate roofs, with plain gable to rear extension; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 2-bay roadside elevation, of which bay 1 is a double chamfered projection. Pointed arched windows with 'Y'-traceried casements diamond leaded, with 3 windows to first floor in bay 1, and 2 on the chamfered faces ground floor: to left of upper bay 2 a segmental-arched recesss with sill, probably for the toll-charge board; to ground floor centre bay 1 signs of a blocked doorway with shallow-pitched roofed porch. South-west side elevation has signs of similar blocked doorway and a blocked window above. Rear extension of single bay having 6-pane sash windows, and to right a studded boarded C20 door set in late C19 open porch. North-east elevation has matching sash windows in the extension, and two lean-to buildings. Interior not seen. This section of the old London-Exeter Road was turnpiked by the Chard Trust in 1753, but was transferred to the smaller Crewkarne Trust in 1825: the road immediately north-east was diverted in 1831, and this toll house probably dates from this period (Bentley B.J and Murless J.B, Somerset Roads, SIAS, 1985).
Listing NGR: ST4562410652
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262411
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bentley, J B, Murless, B J, Somerset Roads: The Legacy of the Turnpikes Western Somerset, (1985)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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