The Chequers Inn is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. A Medieval Inn. 3 related planning applications.
The Chequers Inn
- WRENN ID
- rough-flint-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- Inn
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TL 4245 18/125 22.11.67
FOWLMERE HIGH STREET (North Side) The Chequers Inn
GV II
Inn. Late C15 or early C16 with C17 additions. Inscription below jetty 'ANO DOM 1675 WT'. Timber-framed and plastered with tarred brick plinth, C20 plain tiled roofs. Rectangular planned painted brick stack to left hand; red brick ridge stack to right hand. Two storeys and cellar main range includes three bays of an original jettied building; one storey and attic range to east, formerly the C17 kitchen. Three gable extensions to north. Main entrance approached by three steps with four-panelled C19 door and moulded wooden architrave. Large three-light transomed window to right hand and canted hung sash bay window to left hand; one first floor twelve-paned hung sash window, and two horizontal sliding sash windows above the jetty. Jetty fascia moulded with three jetty brackets. Lower range to east with three small windows. Interior: painted clunch arcade of ten trefoiled arches above fireplace; ogee-moulded ceiling beams. Samuel Pepys stayed at the inn in 1660. V.C.H., Vol. VI, p.156 R.C.H.M. Report 1950
Listing NGR: TL4211545880
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