40, FORE STREET
40, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297111
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 40, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 40, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297111
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 40, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40, FORE 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:
- 40, FORE 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 32368 08600
Details
CHARD
ST3308 FORE STREET 756-1/4/65 (South side) 29/07/76 No.40 (Formerly Listed as: FORE STREET (South side) No.40 Somerset House)
GV II
Offices. Dated 1900. Stucco with painted stone dressings and plinth; clay tile roof; brick stacks. Double-depth central-staircase plan. Eclectic Victorian style. 2 storeys with attics; symmetrical 6-window range. C20 door with semi-circular overlight set in doorcase with banded rusticated pilasters and radial rustication to semi-circular arch with dated keystone reaching up to moulded cornice. 3-light plate-glass shop windows with eared architraves to each side. Continuous moulded sill band above with small brackets to first floor sills. First-floor: central pair of adjacent sash windows in semicircular-arched moulded architraves with keystones, flanked by pairs of sash windows in eared architraves. The outer ones are slightly wider. Attic: central gabled roof dormer with sash window. Forward-facing gables to each side with sash windows in round-arched moulded architraves. All windows above ground floor have margin pane lights in upper sashes; lower sashes are plain. Chamfered rusticated quoins. Roof: diagonally-hung clay tiles with crested ridge and finials to forward gable. Central ridge stack and one to left gable end. Gables and dormers have fretted bargeboards with pendants. INTERIOR: ground floor C20; stairs above are open-string with plain balusters and turned newels. Doors to 1st floor have stopped chamfered frames; some original fireplaces in attic. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: ST3236808600
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374094
- 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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