Hope Terrace And Attached Walls And Outbuildings To Rear

Hope Terrace is a terrace of ten houses built around 1820 in Chard. The houses are constructed of Flemish bond brick with stone dressings and platbands dividing the floors. The rear and sides have rubble limestone at ground floor level, with slate hanging on the first and second floors. Each house follows a double-depth plan, with an entrance hall to the left and a staircase between the front and back rooms.

The terrace is three storeys high, with a basement, and has a ten-window front. All windows have flat, gauged brick arches with keystones, except those in the basement, which have cambered arches. The second floor windows are 4/8-pane sash windows, while the ground and first floors have 8/8-pane sash windows. The front doors are six-panel doors with semicircular fanlights, each set within a gauged brick arch and keystone. The two houses at the right-hand end have been altered in the mid-20th century.

Inside, the ground floor staircases are between walls, featuring an open string, a swept painted rail, and turned newel posts. Some original fireplaces are present on the upper floors, along with a kitchen range and shelves with reeded fronts set into recesses in the basement.

Attached to the rear of the terrace is a continuous rubble stone wall with a brick capping, enclosing the back gardens. Each garden is accessed by a wooden gate and has pantiled outhouses extending along the garden length. The terrace and associated outbuildings represent a complete and well-preserved example of an early 19th-century terrace.