Chequers

FLAMSTEAD LONDON ROAD TL 01 SE (South side) Friars Wash 4/39 Chequers 26.1.67 II

House, for many years up to 1950s the Chequers Inn, now a private house. C17, E bay C18 and brickwork to front, rear wing and outshuts C19. Timber frame exposed with brick infill all painted over, dark weatherboarded at rear, painted brick E bay, steep old red tile roofs, hipped rear wing and lean-to extension to W end. A 2-storeys, 3-units house with internal chimney a third from W end and a formerly E gable chimney enclosed by a one-bay extension towards river. N front to former Watling Street/Holyhead Road has 4 windows on 1st floor. 9-panes 2-lights Yorkshire sliding casements. 3 on ground floor and battened door in middle of house in heavy frame with fluted pilasters support shaped brackets with guttae to moulded flat hood. Small eaves soffit. Brick E bay, similarly pointed and with cambered arches to windows. Interior has higher 1st floor in 2 W bays as if a separate build. Jowled posts support straight tie-beams. Clasped-purlin roof with collar-and- queen-struts trusses and straight wind-braces. Straight braces to tie-beams. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL0860014979