The Chequers Public House With Attached Stable and Bakehouse

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TQ69NW RAYLEIGH ROAD, Hutton 723-1/6/210 (South side) The Chequers Public House with attached stable and bakehouse

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Public house with attached stable and bakehouse. c1600, c1800, C20. Timber-framing and brick, hipped peg and flat clay tiled roofs. Plan of original block parallel to road with higher later wing at W end running N towards road, stable and bakehouse at E end and SE corner respectively. EXTERIOR: one and a half storeys. N front elevation has E and W units. E unit comprises one and a half storey range with single storey stable flush at E end. Wall now of C19 red brick. Stable colourwashed, central doorway with C20 boarded door, small segment headed fixed window, second doorway, now blocked with upper C20 casement window. One and a half storey range has C20 projecting clay tiled pentice roof on 2 slender brick piers. Ground floor part-opening casement window and C20 door panelled in Tudor style. Recessed C19 wall at E end has segment headed doorway with contemporary door having 2 lower flush panels and upper glazing. Upper floor lit by 2 dormer windows, now with C20 casements, one 2-light and one 3-light. To W, projecting timber-framed and rendered block c1800 with hipped roof and C20 brick plinth. Both ground and first floors have C20 metal framed 3-light casement windows with glazing bars, 6x3 panes in all. Rear, S elevation, principal unit c1600 range with C20 wing at W end not of special interest. Attached C18 bakehouse at E end linked back to stable and principal block. Main one-and-a-half storey range now with C19 red brick facing, dentilled eave. Central segment headed door with C20 2-leaf door, having upper leaded glazing, to E , segment headed window with sashes c1900, glazing bars, 4x2 panes, further to E, C20 2-light casement window and another with single light. Upper floor lit by 3 dormer windows, 2 with 2-light casement windows with glazing bars, 2x2 panes, one with single light casement. Principal stack emerges through roof in front of apex, upper part rebuilt in C19. Second stack through roof pitch towards hip at E end. W end elevation, 2 conjoined units, to S, end gable of older one and a half storey house. To N, side wall of taller 2-storeyed addition. N-S, C19 stack rebuilt in C20, 2 first floor sash windows, one with moulded architrave, sashes, C20 replacements. S block. two C20 ground floor sash windows with glazing bars, each 4x3 panes. First floor, single 2-light casement window. E elevation of N front, projecting 2-storeyed block, ground floor 2 C19 sash windows with moulded architraves. INTERIOR: first floor, principal framing members of 3 celled house c1600, with arched braces, posts, tie-beams and evidence of side purlin roof. Ground floor, considerably altered but central hall ceiling joists of deepish section with carpenters' marks and diminished haunched soffit tenons, bridging joist seated on lintel of C17 fireplace. The originally wide fireplace is now reduced on N side and the timber lintel is under-built c1800 with brick segment headed arch. Backing fireplace for original parlour at W end of C20 rebuild. BAKEHOUSE: attached, aligned N-S. Single storey red brick colourwashed, peg-tiled roof, stack at S end gable. W elevation, C19 boarded door and C20 2-light fixed window. E elevation, 2 windows, now boarded in, one C19 with glazing bars, 4x2 panes. S end elevation contains rear of stack, now rebuilt in C20 in red brick. INTERIOR: timber lintel of large red brick fireplace has simple late C17 stopped chamfer. Roof framing of queen post/side purlin type still contains 2 trusses with jointed and pegged members and probably contemporary. Outer walls of C18 red brick up to eave with occasional timber bearers. Stable interior plain red brick. A deep well in the rear yard immediately to the W of the bakehouse is now capped and has a C20 mock well head over the top.

Listing NGR: TQ6285795318

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