Chequers

CHEQUERS, CROMER

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1101452
Date first listed:
31-May-1984
List Entry Name:
Chequers
Statutory Address:
CHEQUERS, CROMER
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1101452
Date first listed:
31-May-1984
List Entry Name:
Chequers
Statutory Address 1:
CHEQUERS, CROMER

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHEQUERS, CROMER

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Ardeley
National Grid Reference:
TL 29845 28588

Details

TL 2928 ARDELEY CROMER (west side)

6/12 Chequers

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GV II

House, sometime The Chequers public house. C17. Timber frame plastered with panelled pargetting. Old red tile roofs, steep slated roof to rear wing. An L-plan house facing road on E. Single-bay 2-storeys and cellar on corner with lower one and a half storeys wing extending to rear (W) containing stair and dairy with kitchen beyond large central chimney. Single-storey former stable extending to N now part of house. On E front this has 3 2-light casement windows and the corner wing has a small 2- light flush casement window above a hipped roofed rectangular bay window with casements. Brick steps on left rise between red brick piers to an open porch with hipped tiled roof carried on 3 cast iron slender Corinthian columns rising from a brick parapet. S side has small casement windows, boarded doors and a gabled 2- light dormer window. Similar dormer on N side. Interior has unjowled posts, chamfered axial floor-beams, cambered tie-beams to rear wing, winding stair, and exposed timbers. Large, formerly external N-side chimney to corner wing. Picturesque building at N entrance to village.

Listing NGR: TL2984528588

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
159517
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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