Chequers
CHEQUERS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054005
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Chequers
- Statutory Address:
- CHEQUERS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054005
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Chequers
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHEQUERS, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHEQUERS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Headcorn
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 83364 44195
Details
HEADCORN HIGH STREET TQ 8344 (South side) 10/76 Chequers 26.4.68
GV II
House. C16 with earlier wing to right, restored 1980s. Timber framed, with rendered infilling. Plain tile roof. C16 central section of 2 timber-framed bays, that to right shorter and subdivided into 2 on ground floor. Cross-wing to right, extending to rear. Separately framed bay or cross-wing to left. 2 storeys on stone plinth. Right wing jettied on solid brackets. Continuous jetty to central section with slender moulded shafts beneath solid brackets. Left end bay probably formerly jettied, now underbuilt. Right end bay and right central by close- studded. Broadly-spaced close-studding to left central bay. Broadly- spaced studding with 2 tension braces to left and bay. Right wing with higher eaves and lower ridge, hipped to front with gablet. Left end bay formerly with lower eaves, now roofed with central section, with hip to left and hipped down to right wing. Slender projecting brick stack to left end, brick stack to left end of right central bay and rear brick stack to junction of central section and right wing. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements. Ribbed door to right end of central section. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ8336444195
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174300
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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