The Old Chequers Public House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1983. Public house.
The Old Chequers Public House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-timber-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1983
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Old Chequers Public House, the Broadway, Thatcham
- OS grid reference
- SU 517 672
- Coordinates
- 51.40188, -1.25691
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Chequers Public House is a public house dating from the 17th century, with a 19th-century front. It features a timber frame, a brick ground floor, and a rendered first floor, topped with a tiled roof that is hipped to the right and has an off-centre ridge stack to the left. The building consists of three framed bays and is two storeys high. On the ground floor, there are three glazing bar sash windows, and on the first floor, there is one sash window along with two casement windows to the left. The entrance includes two doors: one located at the far left and another situated between the first and second windows from the right.
Local climate
The Old Chequers Public House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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