The Old Chequers is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. House. 7 related planning applications.
The Old Chequers
- WRENN ID
- knotted-newel-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Chequers, 7, Church Street, Boxford, CO10 5DU
- OS grid reference
- TL 962 404
- Coordinates
- 52.02802, 0.85894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Chequers is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 16th to 17th centuries, originally comprising two houses. It has undergone considerable restoration. The building is two storeys high. The north block features a jettied upper storey supported by a moulded bressumer. This section has a four-window front with casements featuring leaded lights. The ground storey of the north block now has large, modern mullioned and transomed windows. A carriage way is located at the north end. The roof is tiled, displaying varied eaves and ridge levels. The south block incorporates a 17th-century chimney stack with four diagonal shafts, the two outer shafts being hexagonal. The interior reveals exposed beams and open fireplaces.
Local climate
The Old Chequers sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 2011
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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