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© Mr Richard Bland ARPS
IoE Number:
374127
Location:
CHARD MUSEUM, 24, 26, 32 AND 34 HIGH STREET (north side)
CHARD TOWN, SOUTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr Richard Bland ARPS
Date Photographed:
06 August 1999
Date listed:
24 March 1950
Date of last amendment:
13 December 1993
Grade
II
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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.