The Chequers Inn
THE CHEQUERS INN, 73, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085984
- Date first listed:
- 13-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Chequers Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHEQUERS INN, 73, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085984
- Date first listed:
- 13-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Chequers Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHEQUERS INN, 73, 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:
- THE CHEQUERS INN, 73, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Sevenoaks (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sevenoaks
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 53064 54600
Details
HIGH STREET 1. 1614 (West Side) No 73 (The Chequers Inn) TQ 5354/1/41 13.4.51 II 2. C16 or early C17 framed structure. Symmetrical stucco elevation to High Street with first floor over-sailing and supported on timber brackets. Large gables to right and left with centre parapet and ridge tile roof. 2 storeys with attic gable windows and centre gabled dormer. Ground floor with painted weatherboarding in centre and stucco plinth. 2 half-glazed and panelled doors with square-paned window in centre. Casement window to left and splayed projecting bay window to right. First floor with 3 sets of widely spaced mullioned casements with ornamental moulded dripstones over. Painted panel in centre beneath centre window with inn sign. Parapet in centre with moulded stucco coping. Ornamental C19 bargeboards to gables and centre dormer. Projecting wooden post in centre with suspended inn sign. London Road elevation is of painted brick elevation with painted brick plinth. 2 storeys. 2-window facase. Projecting eaves and gutter. Hipped mansard tiled roof with sprocketed eaves. 2 flat-roofed leaded dormers with sliding casements. Ground floor with centre half-glazed and panelled door with glazing bars and rectangular fanlight and flat projecting bracketed hood over. Splayed projecting bay to left of door containing sash windows with glazing bars and moulded headpiece with flat roof. Projecting oriel window to right of door containing square-paned casements with top lights and dentilled headpiece with flat roof. 2 carved brackets supporting oriel window. First floor with 2 tripartite sash windows with glazing bars. Rainwater-pipe in centre. Pro- jecting wooden arm in centre with suspended inn sign. To left of main eleva- tion and projecting, C18 addition of painted brick with random stone plinth, 2 storeys, moulded eaves and gutter and hipped tile roof. One sash window with glazing bars in centre on ground floor. 2 similar sash windows on first floor.
Listing NGR: TQ5306454600
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 172219
- 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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