Chequers

Chequers is a house that was formerly known as The Chequers public house, dating from the 17th century. It features a timber frame with plastered panelled pargetting and has old red tile roofs, with a steep slated roof on the rear wing. The building is arranged in an L-shape, facing the road to the east. It has a single bay that is two storeys high and includes a cellar, while a lower one and a half storey wing extends to the rear, containing a stair and dairy with a kitchen beyond a large central chimney. There is also a single-storey former stable to the north, which is now part of the house.

On the eastern front, the house has three 2-light casement windows, and the corner wing features a small 2-light flush casement window above a hipped-roofed rectangular bay window with casements. Brick steps on the left rise between red brick piers to an open porch, which has a hipped tiled roof supported by three slender cast iron Corinthian columns that rise from a brick parapet. The southern side of the building has small casement windows, boarded doors, and a gabled 2-light dormer window, with a similar dormer on the northern side.

Inside, the house includes unjowled posts, chamfered axial floor beams, cambered tie beams in the rear wing, a winding stair, and exposed timbers. There is a large chimney on the northern side of the corner wing that was formerly external. This picturesque building is located at the northern entrance to the village.