CHARD MUSEUM

CHARD MUSEUM, 24, 26, 32 AND 34, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297119
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:: CHARD MUSEUM
Statutory Address:: CHARD MUSEUM, 24, 26, 32 AND 34, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 1999-08-06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297119
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: CHARD MUSEUM
Statutory Address 1:: CHARD MUSEUM, 24, 26, 32 AND 34, HIGH STREET

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.

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

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHARD MUSEUM, 24, 26, 32 AND 34, HIGH 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:: ST3189908566

Details

CHARD

ST3108 HIGH STREET 756-1/3/99 (North side) 24/03/50 Nos.24, 26, 32 AND 34 Chard Museum (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (North side) Nos.24, 26, 32, AND 34 Godworthy House)

GV II

Row of 4 dwellings, now museum. Late C16 with early C19 and C20 alterations. Squared and coursed flint with stone quoins and some dressings. Continuous thatched roof, brick stacks. 4-unit plan. 2 storeys; 7-window range. Projecting plinth. Five doors (once each to individual cottages): Nos 32 and 34, to the left, have 2 adjacent mid C20 planked doors flanked by label moulds over 3-light cavetto-moulded stone mullioned windows and C20 leaded lights; similar windows with 5 lights above. Nos 26 and 24 are each single-window range: early C19 eight/eight-pane sashes set in moulded wood architraves at first-floor level. No.26 has C20 six-panel door under wooden lintel and C20 bow window to right. No.24 has C20 six-panel door under brick lintel, 6/6-pane sash window set in moulded wood architrave to right. INTERIOR: remodelled c1970 when floors were removed and it was reroofed to house part of the museum.

Listing NGR: ST3189908566

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Legacy System number:: 374127
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.