THE CHEQUERS WITH WALL AND OUTHOUSES FRONTING CHEQUER LANE

THE CHEQUERS WITH WALL AND OUTHOUSES FRONTING CHEQUER LANE, HITCHIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307773
Date first listed:: 08-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: THE CHEQUERS WITH WALL AND OUTHOUSES FRONTING CHEQUER LANE
Statutory Address:: THE CHEQUERS WITH WALL AND OUTHOUSES FRONTING CHEQUER LANE, HITCHIN ROAD

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Date:: 2001-07-21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307773
Date first listed:: 08-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: THE CHEQUERS WITH WALL AND OUTHOUSES FRONTING CHEQUER LANE
Statutory Address 1:: THE CHEQUERS WITH WALL AND OUTHOUSES FRONTING CHEQUER LANE, HITCHIN ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE CHEQUERS WITH WALL AND OUTHOUSES FRONTING CHEQUER LANE, HITCHIN ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Preston
National Grid Reference:: TL1800824859

Details

TL 1724 & TL 1824 8/95 & 9/95

PRESTON HITCHIN ROAD (West side) The Chequers with wall and outhouses fronting Chequer Lane

GV II

House, sometime a public house, with wall and outhouses. C17 or earlier, brick casing and parallel rear wing early C18, recorded as the "Chekers" in 1788, where the manor courts of Temple Dinsley were held, closed as a public house 1959, renovated and extended in 1960s. Timber frame front range, red brick elsewhere and as casing to front range, and infill panels to frame exposed on E gable end. Roughcast gable triangle at W and rear part. Steep old red tile roofs. 2-storeys and cellar, 3 windows long house on road junction facing S, with 2-storeys and cellar parallel rear wing projecting to E and W. S front has plinth and red and blue bricks in Flemish-bond with lighter red dressings to openings and alternating with blue headers in segmental arches below the plat-band. Flush 2-lights casement windows with small panes. Brick casing to W gable later than front. Large internal chimney a third from W end, and projecting E gable chimney with tumbled brick offsets. E end has exposed frame with collar and tie-beam of a clasped-purlin roof and storey-height studs. C20 large segmental flat topped bow window in middle of front. Cellar under W room. Part of rear range projecting at E has plinth, plat-band, box eaves, and moulded brick corbelling to kneeler of moulded brick gable parapet rising to internal gable chimney. S window has light red gauged flat arch. Segmental arches to small windows in end. Cellar below. From rear corner a C20 2-storeys brick and tile wing extends to the NW with entrance door flanked by windows. From SW corner of front range a 2M high brick wall runs NW with battered buttresses, a boarded gate with square piers, and linking to a single-storey gabled outhouse along the N boundary of the site. This has a gable parapet and blocked openings to road and brick infill over a timber sill plate at NE. Interior of house has axial beams, 3-bays framed structure, and large open fireplace to chimney at W end of larger middle bay. Space for lobby-entrance in front of stack, and for stair behind. One cellar is brick vaulted.

Listing NGR: TL1800824859

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Legacy System number:: 162887
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.