20 and 22, High Street
20 and 22, High Street, Chard, TA20 1QB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297117
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 20 and 22, High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 20 and 22, High Street, Chard, TA20 1QB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297117
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 20 and 22, High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20 and 22, High Street, Chard, TA20 1QB
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:
- 20 and 22, High Street, Chard, TA20 1QB
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:
- ST3191608567
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 7 December 2022 to amend description and reformat the text to current standards
ST3108
756-1/3/94
CHARD
HIGH STREET (north side)
Nos.20 and 22
29/07/76
GV
II
Inn, now part of the museum. Late C16/early C17 with later alterations. Coursed flint and limestone rubble; painted stone lintels with keystones to ground floor. Three-unit through-passage plan. Two storeys, three window range. The first floor has two-light casements, each with four panes, under wooden lintels. The ground floor of No.22, to the left, has keyed stone lintel over central C20 door between two enlarged C19 sashes of 4/4-panes; carriage entry to right.
INTERIOR: the ground floor retains an open fireplace with an oak lintel to the front of the left party wall. Stop-chamfered beams flank the former through-passage, that to the left has mortices to former studding, some wattle-and-daub preserved as an exhibit, and to the rear end are notches cut in former door jambs to receive an arch. The first floor has a rear stack to an open fireplace with an oak lintel and wide oak floorboards to the central room. Thatch roof, continuous with neighbouring Chard Museum (Grade II* listed), not accessible.
HISTORY: formerly the New Inn.
Listing NGR: ST3191608567
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374122
- 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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