Fore Street Chambers and attached railings and walls
Fore Street Chambers, 32A, Fore Street, Chard, TA20 1PT
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Overview
- 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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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- 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
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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:
- Fore Street Chambers, 32A, Fore Street, Chard, TA20 1PT
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 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374091
- 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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