Description

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ST3308
756-1/4/57

CHARD
FORE STREET (north side)
No.5

29/07/76

GV
II
Former hotel, now two shops. 1834, with later alterations. Ham Hill stone shop front, stucco first and second floors; Cornish slate roof with stone copings; brick stacks. Double-depth plan. Three storeys; four window range. C20 shop front. First and second floors have two/two-pane sashes in flat arch frames with keystones dying into platbands. Box gutter in brackets; stack to left gable end and ridge stack to right of centre; stepped copings to gable ends and a medieval stone carved finial to right gable.

INTERIOR: C20 shop and first floor. Staircase from second to third floor at rear left corner, set in an oval hall with round-arched sash window, is open-well, open-string with plain balusters and swept mahogany rail. On the third floor a passage with two round arches runs centrally, parallel to the front and some early C19 fireplaces still remain.

HISTORY: built as the Crown Hotel in 1834.

Listing NGR: ST3214008615

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26500778

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Recommended Books

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)