The Chequers Inn
132, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186736
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Chequers Inn
- Statutory Address:
- 132, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186736
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Chequers Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- 132, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE CHEQUERS INN, 131A, 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:
- 132, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHEQUERS INN, 131A, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Oxford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 51407 06178
Details
HIGH STREET 1. 1485 (South Side) No 131A (The Chequers Inn) No 132 SP 5106 Sil 8/346 12.1.54. II GV 2. House, Inn and shop. RCHM 76. C15-C16 but has been altered. The North front is a 3-storeyed timber-framed front with an overhang remaining above a modern shop front. There are cellars and the front has a moulded cornice and a parapet. In the lst and 2nd floors are 3 sash windows. On the West side of the passage way on the East of the house, which leads to the Chequers Inn, is some original C15 studding with the remains of two original timber doorways one with roses on the lintel; there are some original moulded beams on the lintel over the way. The Chequers Inn forms the back of No 132 and consists of a 3-storeyed range of ancient date facing East and now covered with modern iron balcony and external staircase; at its North end and in the 2nd floor is an original C17 3-light Venetian window in a restored wood frame and above this, to the West, shows a steep-pitched gable. To the South of this range is a C17 2-storeyed roughcast extension but the cellars are probably older. A range (possibly C17 in origin) on the East side of the yard, being the kitchen of the inn, consists of 2-storeyed coursed rubble with a Welsh slate hipped roof, in the South of which is a. gabled attic dormer; in the ground floor are modern windows but those in the lst floor appear to be C18. Interior. RCHM page 166a. Includes some Cl5 stone panelling, a C16-C17 panelled ceiling and a C17 stone fireplace. History. Probably built by Alderman Richard Kent early in C16 when it was known as Kent's Hall. (Oxford History Society XXXIX. 172-3 XV, l50).
All the listed buildings on the South Side form group.
Listing NGR: SP5140506184
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245541
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 166
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, (), 172-173
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, (), 150
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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