The Chequers Inn
THE CHEQUERS INN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349076
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Chequers Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHEQUERS INN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349076
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Chequers Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHEQUERS INN
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:
- THE CHEQUERS INN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Yalding
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 68975 48154
Details
YALDING TQ 64 NE Laddingford 3/155 The Chequers Inn II
Possibly house, now public house, C16, with C19 facade. Timber framed, weatherboarded, with plain tile roof. Four C16 timber-framed bays, two to centre relatively narrow. Probably storeyed from beginning. Later (C19?) single-bay addition to left end. 2 storeys, on brick plinth. Roof half-hipped to left, gabled to right. Red and grey brick ridge stack to left of centre and projecting brick stack to right gable end. Irregular fenestration of 3 three-light casements; one towards each end and one to right of centre. 3 boarded doors; one left of stack, one to right of centre, and one towards right end. Weatherboarded lean-to to left, with slate roof and one two-light casement. Short single-storey rear addition with stack, to left of centre. Interior: only partly inspected. Chamfered axial beam and bevelled joists to left end bay of C16 section. Cross beam between left and left-central bays is chamfered either side of axial beam to left, and continuously chamfered to right. Cross beam between two central bays now interrupted by C20 base to stack. Cross beam between right-central and right end bays morticed for partition. Chamfered axial beam, morticed for partition, and bevelled joists, to right end bay. Mortices for four-light diamond mullion ground-floor window to former left gable end.
Listing NGR: TQ6897548154
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174957
- 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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