Prospect House and attached walls and railings
Prospect House, Combe Street, Chard, TA20 1HZ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197438
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Prospect House and attached walls and railings
- Statutory Address:
- Prospect House, Combe Street, Chard, TA20 1HZ
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197438
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Prospect House and attached walls and railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- Prospect House, Combe Street, Chard, TA20 1HZ
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:
- Prospect House, Combe Street, Chard, TA20 1HZ
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 32047 08676
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 7 December 2022 to amend description and reformat the text to current standards
ST3308
756-1/4/35
CHARD
COMBE STREET (west side)
Prospect House and attached walls and railings
(Formerly Listed as: COMBE STREET Prospect House)
(Formerly Listed as: COMBE STREET Walls and railings to forecourt of Prospect House)
24/05/76
GV
II
House. 1728, altered early C19 and c1860. Limestone rubble to half basement; Flemish bond brick above and Ham Hill stone doorcase and platband. Slate roof with crested ridge, brick stacks and fretted bargeboards to gable ends. Double-depth central-staircase plan with extensions to sides and rear. Two storeys with half basement; symmetrical three window range plus a small margin-pane sash to left extension with c1930 door below. Both front extensions have lean-to roofs, that to the right having no windows to the front. A long, wide flight of steps to a six-panel door in a Tuscan-style doorcase. All windows have flat gauged brick arches, forward frames and late C19 two/two-pane horned sashes. Two C18 rubblestone extensions with pantile roofs to the rear were workshops.
INTERIOR: staircase, probably altered c1860, has bracketed ends, stick balusters and plain newel. Ground-floor room to front left has mid C19 black marble fireplace with cast-iron arch plate register grate; back room left has large rectangular fireplace with a stone lintel covered by mid C18 wooden surround with beaded edge to inside arris. There is a small aperture through the fireplace wall to the left. Front room right has black slate fire surround with painted marble panels. First floor room to left has a mid C19 white marble fireplace with cast-iron grate, and a cast-iron ceiling rose. Late C16 reset panelled door to attic. Back room left has two large chamfered oak beams running from front to back; other ground floor ceilings are C19 lath-and-plaster covering original beams.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: coursed rubblestone wall with pointed arch gate to the left and with 2 generous sweeps up to right return. Cast-iron gate and railings to front on pattern of vine leaves; gate has been lowered after repair. Deeds state that the house was built in 1728.
Walls and railings to forecourt were listed on 29.07.76.
HISTORY: Prospect House was the home of James Gillingham, a bootmaker, who helped pioneer the manufacture of prosthetic limbs from the 1860s onward. His workshops were located in the extant extensions to the rear of the building.
Listing NGR: ST3204708676
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374062
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
Warren, D, James Gillingham: Surgical Mechanist and Manufacturer of Artificial Limbs, (2001);, accessed 1 September 2021 from https://www.chardmuseum.co.uk/james-gillingham
Other
Indenture for house: 1728
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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