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On Fore Street, in Chard West
What it's like at TA20 1QA: every home that has sold on Fore Street since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Fore Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
20 of the 112 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 42, Fore StreetSemi-detached | Aug 2005 | £200,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ground Floor Flat, 44, Fore StreetFlat | Jan 2007 | £100,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 44a, Fore StreetFlat · company-owned | Jan 2007 | £120,000 | 49 m² | £2,449/m² | 1 |
| 46, Fore StreetOther · company-owned | Sept 2014 | £165,000 | 46 m² | £3,587/m² | 1 |
| 48, Fore StreetTerraced · company-owned | Aug 2012 | £65,000 | 92 m² | £707/m² | 1 |
| 50, Fore StreetTerraced | May 1997 | £40,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 54b, Fore StreetTerraced | Jul 1997 | £37,000 | 97 m² | £381/m² | 1 |
| 58, Fore StreetTerraced · company-owned | Sept 2024 | £75,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 59, Fore StreetOther · company-owned | Jul 2025 | £142,500 | – | – | 2 |
| Essex House, Fore StreetDetached | May 2010 | £225,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Keepings Cottage, 44b, Fore StreetFlat | Nov 2023 | £127,000 | 62 m² | £2,048/m² | 1 |
| The Corner House, 58, Fore StreetTerraced | Aug 2012 | £127,000 | – | – | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Axminster, a drive away (11 km), with 418k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Exeter Central.
The nearest bus stop is Essex Close, 50 m away, with a bus about every 55 minutes on weekdays (routes 30, 99, 624); 8 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 51 minutes away by public transport (37 by car).
The nearest primary school is Manor Court Community Primary School, a few minutes' walk (450 m); 75% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Holyrood Academy, 450 m away; Attainment 8: 42.4 · 5.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Poundstretcher, 100 m away; Chard RFC (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Ariel Healthcare (600 m), with Morton's Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (50 m).
For a haircut, Chard Barbers is 150 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Musgrove Park Hospital, 19 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 52% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 17 restaurants and cafés, 9 pubs and bars.
The Hive Young Peoples Centre is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and The Cerdic the nearest pub (under 50 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (11 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 150 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 138 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 25% flats and 21% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 126 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Snowdon Park, 900 m away; for exercise, Chard Leisure Centre (100 m).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.4 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Exeter is 35 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 59 km.
Most households own their home, 20% rent privately.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
48 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| The Corner House | II | 30 m |
| Brookside | II | 30 m |
| Sunnyside, 59 Fore Street | II | 40 m |
| Monmouth House and Attached Walls and Railings | II* | 50 m |
| Gate Pier and Forecourt Railings to Essex House | II | 50 m |
| 62, 64 and 66, Silver Street | II | 50 m |
| Flintstones, and Attached Railings | II | 50 m |
| Essex House | II* | 50 m |
| Wesleyan Methodist Church and Attached Walls and Railings | II | 60 m |
| Main building at Chard School | II* | 60 m |
| 40, Fore Street | II | 70 m |
| Dolphin Inn | II | 80 m |
Yeovil constituency: Adam Dance MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 12,268 (25.1%), turnout 61%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 49%, Conservative 24%, Reform UK 16%, Labour 6%.
12 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near TA20 1QA →
Nearest 12 shown. Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Nearest 8 shown. Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Somerset since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 112 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 52 homes with certificates have solar panels, 2 a heat pump, and 26 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.6% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 1.9% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 86.4% | 73.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.5% | 13.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 11.0% | 10.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.2% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Nearest: Burnham Pier · about 42 min
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