Ye Olde Chequers Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
Ye Olde Chequers Public House
- WRENN ID
- high-glass-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Ye Olde Chequers Public House, Gaddesden Row, Great Gaddesden, HP2 6HH
- OS grid reference
- TL 057 122
- Coordinates
- 51.79935, -0.46811
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ye Olde Chequers Public House is an inn, now functioning as a public house, dating from the early 18th century, with a southeast block added in the 19th century. The building is constructed of plum brick with some black headers, and features red brick dressings, a moulded plinth, a plat band that is interrupted at the corners, and gauged flat arches. It has a moulded wooden eaves cornice beneath a steep old red tile hipped roof.
On the right side, there is a later red brick lean-to under a catslide roof, and a narrow tall timber frame projection at the southwest, which is dark weatherboarded and gabled. The southeast block, made of brick and flint, also has a hipped roof. The structure is two stories high with five bays, presenting a symmetrical facade facing north. It features narrow flush box sash windows with 4/4 panes and a blocked window above the central entrance. The entrance itself has a six-panel raised and fielded door set within an early 19th-century moulded wooden door surround. The building has a square, double-pile plan and includes two chimneys on the mid-wall, with an additional chimney on the rear wallhead of the southeast block.
Local climate
Ye Olde Chequers Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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