Chard Manor Farmhouse

Chard Manor Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a residential home, dating to the 15th/early 16th century. It was extensively remodelled and extended around 1740. The house is painted render with Ham Hill stone dressings and a slate roof, featuring brick stacks. The original design was a single-depth through-passage plan with a central open hall, extended in the mid-18th century to a 4-unit, 2-storey plan. A 20th-century outshut is located at the rear. The facade has seven windows and a 6-panel door positioned under the third window from the left, topped by a pediment supported by brackets. A moulded stone cornice and copings define the parapet and gable ends. All windows are 6/6-pane sashes with thick glazing bars and forward frames.

Inside, the room to the left features an axial stopped-chamfer beam with run-out stops and a large brick inglenook fireplace with an oak lintel in the back left corner. A small cupboard with a drawer is built into the rear wall. The entrance hall contains an open-well, open-string staircase with carved brackets and turned balusters that support a swept and wreathed mahogany rail. The square landing has a 1740 box cornice, along with Rococo plasterwork. A round-arched window on the rear half-landing has reveals with raised-and-fielded panelling. The room to the right of the hall also has raised-and-fielded panelling, a stone fireplace, a semi-circular alcove, and a door in the back wall. It has a low ceiling with a wooden cornice, deep-set windows, raised-and-fielded panelled shutters, and window seats. The room furthest to the right is fully panelled and includes a fireplace on the end wall with a dentilled mantel shelf ornamented with egg-and-dart details and a rich Baroque surround.

The former late medieval open hall, originally 3 bays, has a moulded (ogee and hollow) surround to the ground-floor fireplace on the rear wall and two arch-braced collar trusses with trenched purlins. The feet of the principal rafters, possibly jointed crucks, have been truncated, along with a 2-bay service end with a similar truss to the left (west) and a ground-floor beam. The first-floor rooms are plain.

A 19th-century cottage is set back and attached to the left, with a rear extension. It is rendered on rubble with a double-pitch pantile roof and one window. The cottage is connected internally to the main house but was substantially altered around 1970.