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© Mr John H. Sparkes
IoE Number:
374112
Location:
FORMER JOINT RAILWAY STATION, GREAT WESTERN ROAD (south side)
CHARD TOWN, SOUTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr John H. Sparkes
Date Photographed:
31 January 2005
Date listed:
29 July 1976
Date of last amendment:
29 July 1976
Grade
II
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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).