40, Fore Street

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