Chard Museum

Chard Museum is a row of four dwellings that date back to the late 16th century, with alterations made in the early 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed from squared and coursed flint, featuring stone quoins and some stone dressings. It has a continuous thatched roof and brick stacks. The layout consists of four units and the building stands two storeys tall with a seven-window range.

The front has a projecting plinth and five doors that originally served as entrances to individual cottages. The doors for Nos. 32 and 34, located on the left, are mid-20th century planked doors flanked by label moulds, leading to three-light cavetto-moulded stone mullioned windows with 20th-century leaded lights. Above these, there are similar five-light windows. Nos. 26 and 24 each have a single-window range, featuring early 19th-century eight-over-eight pane sashes set in moulded wood architraves at the first-floor level. No. 26 has a 20th-century six-panel door beneath a wooden lintel and a 20th-century bow window to the right. No. 24 has a 20th-century six-panel door under a brick lintel and a six-over-six pane sash window set in a moulded wood architrave to the right.

The interior was remodeled around 1970 when the floors were removed and the building was reroofed to accommodate part of the museum.