The Chequers Public House and Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 December 1972. Inn. 4 related planning applications.
The Chequers Public House and Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- errant-attic-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 December 1972
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Chequers Public House and Restaurant, St Albans Road, Redbourn, AL3 7AD
- OS grid reference
- TL 110 117
- Coordinates
- 51.79338, -0.39149
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chequers Public House and Restaurant is an inn that dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick casing and weatherboarded gable ends. The building has a steeply pitched thatched roof, with an off-centre chimney and an additional chimney at the northern end. It is two storeys high and has four 19th-century casement windows. The ground floor includes two canted bays, with the right bay containing the entrance door. The structure has five bays in total, with the two on the south side being a later extension.
Inside, four trusses are visible, featuring tie beams, collars, and queen and king posts. The front passage wall is timbered and of light construction, which continues to the first floor. The northern bay of the building is slightly recessed and may have been rebuilt in the 18th or 19th century. There is a 20th-century single-storey outshut on the south side, along with 19th and 20th-century rear extensions that have slate roofs.
Local climate
The Chequers Public House and Restaurant 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 80% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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