Dower House Hotel
✓ Victorian country home with modern luxury, family run
🏖️ 2.85 miles from Lyme Regis Front Beach (Good water quality)
Lyme Regis
The Phoenix Hotel
Chard
📍 Fore St, Chard, TA20 1PH
🔌 Nearest public charging: · 0.1 mi (Open Charge Map)
Photo: Mike Smith (CC BY-SA 2.0)
- Unique pub/hotel in the centre of town
- Food and drink served all day
- Live music and night club entertainment at weekends
- Large function room, The Ballroom, for weddings and parties
- Skittle alley available for group bookings
The Phoenix Hotel sits in the centre of Chard, Dorset, offering good quality accommodation, food and entertainment. Food and drink are served all day, with an extensive menu prepared by the hotel's own chefs and bar food as a speciality. At weekends there's live music several times a month, plus night club entertainment with a DJ in the old Ballroom of this 17th century coaching inn. A large function room, The Ballroom, is available for weddings, birthday parties and christenings, and there's a skittle alley for group nights out. Locally, you're close to Chard Museum just 0.2 miles away, with Perry's Cider Mill and Axminster Museum both within easy reach, and Axminster station 6.7 miles away.
How far to…
- Station
- 6.7 miles
- Chard Museum
- 0.2 miles
- Perry's Cider Mill
- 4.2 miles
Accommodation on site
- Rooms
Details taken from the operator's own website on 19 Sep 2026 — check current terms when you book.
Facilities
- ✓ Evening Entertainment
- ✓ Bar
- ✓ Restaurant
- ✓ WiFi
- 🔌 EV Charging Nearby
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Fri 13 Nov · 12:00
Taunton Audio Tour: Echoes of History and Heritage
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Fri 4 Dec · 12:00
Taunton Audio Tour: Echoes of History and Heritage
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Fri 4 Dec · 20:00
Mambo Presents: The Sound of Christmas
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🏛️ Museums & Galleries · 0.2 mi
Chard Museum
Chard Museum is a small local history museum in Chard, Somerset, housed in a converted 16th-century...
🏛️ Museums & Galleries · 4.2 mi
Perry's Cider Mill
Mill building in Dowlish Wake, South Somerset, England, UK
🏛️ Museums & Galleries · 6.5 mi
Axminster Museum
Axminster Museum, part of Axminster Heritage, brings to life "the story of Axminster" from "origins...
🦁 Zoos & Wildlife · 6.8 mi
Foxdown Childrens Farm
Foxdown Children's Farm is a small family-run working farm set high in the Marshwood Vale, West Dors...
🏛️ Museums & Galleries · 7.5 mi
Crewkerne Museum
Crewkerne and District Museum is a small local museum in Crewkerne, Somerset, England. It is part of...
🏛️ Museums & Galleries · 7.5 mi
Upottery Airfield Nissen Hut Heritage Centre
This is a small heritage centre near Upottery airfield, run by the South West Airfields Heritage Tru...
🏛️ Museums & Galleries · 10.2 mi
Dinosaurland Fossil Museum
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Castle & Heritage · 3.1 mi
Forde Abbey
National Trust · 7.3 mi
Pilsdon Pen
Castle & Heritage · 7.6 mi
Barrington Court
Stately Home & Palace · 8.2 mi
Shute Barton
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