Chard Manor Farmhouse
CHARD MANOR FARMHOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197429
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Chard Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHARD MANOR FARMHOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197429
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Chard Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHARD MANOR FARMHOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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:
- CHARD MANOR FARMHOUSE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chard Town
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 32262 08164
Details
CHARD
ST3308 CHURCH STREET 756-1/4/8 (West side) 24/03/50 Chard Manor Farmhouse
GV II*
Farmhouse, now residential home. C15/early C16; completely remodelled and extended, c1740. Painted render with Ham Hill stone dressings and slate roof with brick stacks. Single-depth through-passage 3-unit plan with central open hall extended to 4-unit 2-storey plan in mid C18. C20 outshut to rear. 2 storeys, 7-window range. 6-panel door under 3rd window from left with pediment on brackets. Moulded stone cornice and copings to parapet and gable ends. All windows are 6/6-pane sashes with thick glazing bars and forward frames. INTERIOR: room to left has axial stopped-chamfer beam and large brick inglenook fireplace with oak lintel to back left corner; small cupboard with drawer below set into rear wall. Entrance hall has open-well, open-string staircase with carved brackets and turned balusters supporting swept and wreathed mahogany rail. Square landing has 1740 box-cornice, which, with the ceiling, is enriched with later-C18 Rococco plasterwork. Round-arched window in rear wall on half-landing with raised-and-fielded panelling to reveals. Room to right of hall has raised-and-fielded panelling, stone fireplace, semi-circular alcove and a door in the back wall; low ceiling with wooden cornice and deep-set windows with raised-and-fielded panelled shutters and window seats. Room to far right is fully panelled with fireplace on end wall. This has a dentilled mantel shelf with egg-and-dart ornaments; the surround itself has rich Baroque ornament. Former late medieval 3-bay open hall has moulded (ogee and hollow) surround to ground-floor fireplace on rear wall and 2 arch-braced collar trusses with trenched purlins; feet of principal rafters (possibly jointed crucks) have been truncated; 2-bay service end with similar truss to left, (west), and ground-floor beam. First-floor rooms are plain. SUBSIDIARY FEATURE: C19 cottage, set back and attached to left with rear extension. Render on rubble, double-pitch pantile roof. 2 storeys, one-window range. Connected inside to main house, totally altered c1970.
Listing NGR: ST3225908163
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374035
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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