Chequers
CHEQUERS, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100385
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Chequers
- Statutory Address:
- CHEQUERS, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100385
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Chequers
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHEQUERS, LONDON ROAD
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, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Flamstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 08600 14979
Details
FLAMSTEAD LONDON ROAD TL 01 SE (South side) Friars Wash 4/39 Chequers 26.1.67 II
House, for many years up to 1950s the Chequers Inn, now a private house. C17, E bay C18 and brickwork to front, rear wing and outshuts C19. Timber frame exposed with brick infill all painted over, dark weatherboarded at rear, painted brick E bay, steep old red tile roofs, hipped rear wing and lean-to extension to W end. A 2-storeys, 3-units house with internal chimney a third from W end and a formerly E gable chimney enclosed by a one-bay extension towards river. N front to former Watling Street/Holyhead Road has 4 windows on 1st floor. 9-panes 2-lights Yorkshire sliding casements. 3 on ground floor and battened door in middle of house in heavy frame with fluted pilasters support shaped brackets with guttae to moulded flat hood. Small eaves soffit. Brick E bay, similarly pointed and with cambered arches to windows. Interior has higher 1st floor in 2 W bays as if a separate build. Jowled posts support straight tie-beams. Clasped-purlin roof with collar-and- queen-struts trusses and straight wind-braces. Straight braces to tie-beams. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL0860014979
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157815
- 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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