Chequers

TL 2928 ARDELEY CROMER (west side)

6/12 Chequers

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GV II

House, sometime The Chequers public house. C17. Timber frame plastered with panelled pargetting. Old red tile roofs, steep slated roof to rear wing. An L-plan house facing road on E. Single-bay 2-storeys and cellar on corner with lower one and a half storeys wing extending to rear (W) containing stair and dairy with kitchen beyond large central chimney. Single-storey former stable extending to N now part of house. On E front this has 3 2-light casement windows and the corner wing has a small 2- light flush casement window above a hipped roofed rectangular bay window with casements. Brick steps on left rise between red brick piers to an open porch with hipped tiled roof carried on 3 cast iron slender Corinthian columns rising from a brick parapet. S side has small casement windows, boarded doors and a gabled 2- light dormer window. Similar dormer on N side. Interior has unjowled posts, chamfered axial floor-beams, cambered tie-beams to rear wing, winding stair, and exposed timbers. Large, formerly external N-side chimney to corner wing. Picturesque building at N entrance to village.

Listing NGR: TL2984528588