The Chequers Inn and Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dartford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1982. A C18 Inn, cottage. 1 related planning application.

The Chequers Inn and Ivy Cottage

WRENN ID
kindled-remnant-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartford
Constituency
Dartford MP: Jim Dickson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 March 1982
Type
Inn, cottage
Address
The Chequers Inn and Ivy Cottage, Darenth Hill, DA2 7QT
OS grid reference
TQ 558 714
Coordinates
51.42083, 0.24003
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Chequers Inn and Ivy Cottage is a building from the 18th century that features a timber-framed structure. It stands two storeys high and has five windows. The ground floor is faced with painted brick, while the upper part is covered in plaster with imitation timber-framing. The roof is hipped and tiled. The first floor has casement windows and horizontally-sliding sash windows, while the ground floor has modern windows. Ivy Cottage occupies the left-hand bay and has a half-hipped end gable with one sash window that retains its glazing bars. The Chequers Inn includes a chamfered beam and some original wainscotting from the late 16th to early 17th century in the tile bar area.

Local climate

The Chequers Inn and Ivy Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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