20 and 22, High Street

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ST3108 756-1/3/94

CHARD HIGH STREET (north side) Nos.20 and 22

29/07/76

GV II Inn, now part of the museum. Late C16/early C17 with later alterations. Coursed flint and limestone rubble; painted stone lintels with keystones to ground floor. Three-unit through-passage plan. Two storeys, three window range. The first floor has two-light casements, each with four panes, under wooden lintels. The ground floor of No.22, to the left, has keyed stone lintel over central C20 door between two enlarged C19 sashes of 4/4-panes; carriage entry to right.

INTERIOR: the ground floor retains an open fireplace with an oak lintel to the front of the left party wall. Stop-chamfered beams flank the former through-passage, that to the left has mortices to former studding, some wattle-and-daub preserved as an exhibit, and to the rear end are notches cut in former door jambs to receive an arch. The first floor has a rear stack to an open fireplace with an oak lintel and wide oak floorboards to the central room. Thatch roof, continuous with neighbouring Chard Museum (Grade II* listed), not accessible.

HISTORY: formerly the New Inn.

Listing NGR: ST3191608567