Lloyds Bank

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ST3308 756-1/4/75

CHARD FORE STREET (north side) No 27, Lloyds Bank

(Formerly listed as Lloyds Bank, FORE STREET)

29/07/76

GV II

Hotel, now bank. 1829. Bath stone ashlar; slate roof; ashlar stacks. Double-depth plan. Classical style. Three storeys with attic; seven-window range. Late C19 two/two-pane sashes. Ground floor: banded rustication with flat wedged arches to windows and carriage entrance to far left; doorcase has 1980s doors, narrow Corinthian pilasters and moulded cornice under console brackets to balcony with iron railings above. String course at balcony level. First floor has a full-height central tripartite window; other windows, with panelled aprons, are under round-headed recesses with a continuous impost forming part of the cornice to the central window which is supported by reeded consoles. Second floor has a central tripartite window and continuous sill band. Deep moulded cornice under a panelled parapet. Three C20 dormer windows. Long extension, to right of carriageway, of C19 limestone rubble with brick openings, 6/6-pane sashes and three-light casement windows to rear.

INTERIOR: altered.

HISTORY: The Chard Arms hotel completed in June 1829 was rebuilt by public subscription at a cost of about £6000 on the site of the earlier Angel Inn which had burned to the ground in 1827. It finally opened in January 1830 and included a grand assembly room, four reception rooms, and ‘fourteen best and secondary bedrooms…and two W.C’s.’ It can be seen on the ‘Plan of the town of Chard made by John Wood, 1841

Listing NGR: ST3224508622