Fore Street Chambers and attached railings and walls

Fore Street Chambers, 32A, Fore Street, Chard, TA20 1PT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205480
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:: Fore Street Chambers and attached railings and walls
Statutory Address:: Fore Street Chambers, 32A, Fore Street, Chard, TA20 1PT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205480
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: Fore Street Chambers and attached railings and walls
Statutory Address 1:: Fore Street Chambers, 32A, Fore Street, Chard, TA20 1PT

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Fore Street Chambers, 32A, Fore Street, Chard, TA20 1PT

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Chard Town
National Grid Reference:: ST 32312 08589

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 July 2022 to update the address and reformat the text to current standards

ST3308 756-1/4/74

CHARD FORE STREET (south side) Nos.32A, Fore Street Chambers and attached railings and walls (Formerly listed as Nos.32A AND 32B, Fore Street Chambers and attached railings and walls, previously listed as:FORE STREET (South side), Nos.32A AND 32B, Fore Street Chambers)

GV II House, now offices. c1850. Ham Hill stone ashlar with banded rustication; slate roof; stone stack to left. Double-depth central-staircase plan. Classical style. Two storeys; three window range. Steps to Ham Hill stone Tuscan-style doorcase with panelled reveals and wooden fanlight in an elliptical arch; wide six-panel door. Either side are two storey wooden canted bays on stone plinths; ground-floor bays have 6/6-pane sashes to the front with a moulded cornice. First-floor has 3/6-pane sashes. Above door is a flat-arched 3/6-pane sash. Hipped, shallow pitched roof with wide eaves and brackets. Rendered stone chimney with cornice to the left.

INTERIOR: wide hall elliptical arch with incised keypattern to pilasters, leads to fine open-string geometric stair with brackets and wreathed handrail. c1840 reeded plaster cornices to both ground-floor front rooms, that to the left embellished with stiff-leaf c1870; fire surround late C19. Six-panel doors.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: iron forecourt railings, long/short spearhead style on low Ham Hill stone walls flanking door, each section with an elliptical plan.

A distinctive villa design, one of an elegant pair with No.30 Fore Street (qv).

Listing NGR: ST3229608584

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Legacy System number:: 374091
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.