Accolade Furnishing is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. Shop. 1 related planning application.
Accolade Furnishing
- WRENN ID
- sunken-buttress-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1976
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Accolade Furnishing, Fore Street, Chard Town, TA20 1PH
- OS grid reference
- ST 323 085
- Coordinates
- 50.87284, -2.96281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building in Chard began as a Wesleyan chapel, constructed around 1814. It was later used by Wesleyan Reformers around 1850 and then returned to the Wesleyans in 1880 before being superseded around 1894. The building is now a shop. It is stuccoed with stone hoodmoulds over pointed arches, and has a coping to the front-facing gable, all topped with a slate roof. The facade is set back from the street, with a shopfront added around 1960 that fills the space. The first floor has a tall, central window with 4 rows of 6 panes, flanked by two wider, lower windows with 5 rows of 3 panes each. All the windows have intersecting glazing bars within the Gothic arches. The interior retains an original gallery around three sides, supported by chamfered square wooden columns. The staircase, featuring a turned newel, has been repositioned.
Local climate
Accolade Furnishing receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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