Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584722

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