5, Fore Street
5, Fore Street, Chard, TA20 1PH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205439
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 5, Fore Street
- Statutory Address:
- 5, Fore Street, Chard, TA20 1PH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205439
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 5, Fore Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, Fore Street, Chard, TA20 1PH
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:
- 5, Fore Street, Chard, TA20 1PH
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 32148 08601
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 October 2022 to amend description due to change of building use and reformat the text to current standards
ST3308
756-1/4/57
CHARD
FORE STREET (north side)
No.5
29/07/76
GV
II
Former hotel, now two shops. 1834, with later alterations. Ham Hill stone shop front, stucco first and second floors; Cornish slate roof with stone copings; brick stacks. Double-depth plan. Three storeys; four window range. C20 shop front. First and second floors have two/two-pane sashes in flat arch frames with keystones dying into platbands. Box gutter in brackets; stack to left gable end and ridge stack to right of centre; stepped copings to gable ends and a medieval stone carved finial to right gable.
INTERIOR: C20 shop and first floor. Staircase from second to third floor at rear left corner, set in an oval hall with round-arched sash window, is open-well, open-string with plain balusters and swept mahogany rail. On the third floor a passage with two round arches runs centrally, parallel to the front and some early C19 fireplaces still remain.
HISTORY: built as the Crown Hotel in 1834.
Listing NGR: ST3214008615
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374085
- 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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