Chequers House

CROWLE CP CHURCH ROAD (east side) SO 95 NW 6/9 Chequers House GV II Farmhouse, now house. Early to mid-C19, altered mid-C20. Brick on lias limestone rubble plinth, shallow-pitched hipped slate roof with end brick stacks. L-plan, main range aligned north/south with north wing; two storeys with dentilled eaves cornice. West front elevation: four bays; windows are glazing bar sashes with gauged flat heads; ground floor windows are 12-pane sashes, first-floor windows are single-hung 9-pane sashes; main entrance in second bay and has good, re-used doorcase of late C18 date with open pediment, panelled soffit, engaged Doric columns with rosette decorated entablature, 6-panelled door, four panels of which are raised and fielded, and a traceried segmental fanlight. The right gable end appears to have been rebuilt in C20. The house and its associated farm buildings (qv) occupies a prominent site at the juction of Church Road and Old Turnpike Road.

Listing NGR: SO9219156541