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Former Joint Railway Station

A Grade II Listed Building in Chard, Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.8786 / 50°52'42"N

Longitude: -2.9544 / 2°57'15"W

OS Eastings: 332950

OS Northings: 109220

OS Grid: ST329092

Mapcode National: GBR M7.SWX5

Mapcode Global: FRA 46PS.BTG

Plus Code: 9C2VV2HW+C6

Entry Name: Former Joint Railway Station

Listing Date: 29 July 1976

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1197457

English Heritage Legacy ID: 374112

ID on this website: 101197457

Location: Furnham, 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 the Good Shepherd Furnham

Church of England Diocese: Bath and Wells

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Description


CHARD

ST30NW GREAT WESTERN ROAD 756-1/1/84 (South side) 29/07/76 Former Joint Railway Station

II

Station building. 1866, for Bristol & Exeter and London & South Western Railways. Flemish bond brick with Bath stone dressings; hipped slate roof, brick ridge stacks. Single storey; 5 bays. Central one, under a pediment with circular ornament, is stepped forward to eaves and is flanked by deeply-recessed bays, each with a door and a window. Outside bays are half-stepped forward with one window between quoins and a door to far left and right. All doors and windows are set in round arches with platband at impost level; windows have bracketed sills and C20 six-pane fixed lights; doors have 4 panels. Shallow-pitched roof with gable to pediment has wide tongued-and-grooved eaves on 3 sides supported by cast-iron brackets resting on keystones of openings in recessed bays. Overhang forms canopy or shelter. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: the station was built to serve the Chard and Taunton Line which was taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1891, a year before the broad gauge track was converted. The station was unique in combining one of Brunel's extended hipped-roofed Italianate brick buildings with one of his wooden overall roofs to the shed (demolished).

Listing NGR: ST3295009220

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