CHEQUER'S HOTEL

CHEQUER'S HOTEL, 6 AND 8, OXFORD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1290045
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: CHEQUER'S HOTEL
Statutory Address:: CHEQUER'S HOTEL, 6 AND 8, OXFORD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1290045
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: CHEQUER'S HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: CHEQUER'S HOTEL, 6 AND 8, OXFORD STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHEQUER'S HOTEL, 6 AND 8, OXFORD STREET

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

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Newbury
National Grid Reference:: SU 46996 67657

Details

1. OXFORD STREET 5127 Nos 6 and 8 (Chequer's Hotel) SU 4767 NW 4/190 SU 4667 NE 3/190

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2. Four builds, representing piecemeal redevelopment of sections of the front range of the former Chequer's Inn and the acquisition of adjoining properties. No 6 (east). Late C18, altered. Three storeys. Three windows. Tiled roof. Stucco front. Slightly recessed sash windows with exposed boxing; paired central windows with glazing bars to 2nd floor; ground floor window in recess. Modern carriage entrance at east end. No 6 (centre). Circa 1833. Three storeys. symmetrical 5 window facade with slightly projecting central entrance bay. Hipped slate roof. Stucco with cornice and blocking course. Recessed sash windows some with glazing bars. Modern entrance. Lead rainwater head inscribed 1833. No 6 west). Mid-late C19 range. Two storeys and dormers. Three bays; fenestration 2:1:2. Slated mansard roof. Stucco with pilasters rising through ground and 1st floor carrying entablature with balustraded parapet above. String at 1st floor level. Three flat-headed dormer sashes. Recessed sash windows with pilasters; 1st floor windows round-arched with archivolts. No 8. Mid C19 (after 1849), formerly a private house set back from the road. Three storeys. Four windows. Hipped slate roof. Stucco with rusticated block quoins cornice and blocking course and plain band at 1st floor level. Architraved sash windows with glazing bars and 1st floor cornices. Former entrance replaced by window. Interior of Nos 6 and 8 altered.

Listing NGR: SU4699667657

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Legacy System number:: 395867
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.