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20 and 22, High Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Chard, Somerset

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Latitude: 50.8726 / 50°52'21"N

Longitude: -2.969 / 2°58'8"W

OS Eastings: 331916

OS Northings: 108567

OS Grid: ST319085

Mapcode National: GBR M6.TCNK

Mapcode Global: FRA 46NS.R52

Plus Code: 9C2VV2FJ+2C

Entry Name: 20 and 22, High Street

Listing Date: 29 July 1976

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1297117

English Heritage Legacy ID: 374122

ID on this website: 101297117

Location: Chard, Somerset, TA20

County: Somerset

District: South Somerset

Civil Parish: Chard Town

Built-Up Area: Chard

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

Church of England Parish: Chard St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Bath and Wells

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Description


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

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