Ye Olde Chequers Public House
YE OLDE CHEQUERS PUBLIC HOUSE, GADDESDEN ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101261
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Chequers Public House
- Statutory Address:
- YE OLDE CHEQUERS PUBLIC HOUSE, GADDESDEN ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101261
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Chequers Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- YE OLDE CHEQUERS PUBLIC HOUSE, GADDESDEN ROW
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:
- YE OLDE CHEQUERS PUBLIC HOUSE, GADDESDEN ROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Gaddesden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 05730 12297
Details
GREAT GADDESDEN GADDESDEN ROW TL 01 SE (South side) Chequers End 4/96 Ye Olde Chequers PH 26.1.67 (Formerly listed as The Chequers Inn)
GV II
Inn, now a public house. Early C18, SE block C19. Plum brick with some black headers, red brick for dressings, moulded plinth, plat band interrupted at corners, and gauged flat arches. Moulded wooden eaves cornice to steep old red tile hipped roof. Later red brick lean-to on RH under catslide roof and narrow tall timber frame dark weatherboarded gabled projection at SW. Brick and flint SE block with hipped roof. A 2-storeys, 5 bays, symmetrical building facing N, with narrow flush box sash windows with 4/4 panes, blocked window over central entrance. 6-panel raised and fielded door in early C19 moulded wooden door surround. A square, double-pile plan, with 2 chimneys on the mid-wall. 2-storeys SE block has chimney on rear wallhead.
Listing NGR: TL0573012297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157875
- 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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