The Chequers Inn

The Chequers Inn is a public house that may have originally been a house, dating from the 16th century, with a facade added in the 19th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a plain tile roof. The building features four timber-framed bays from the 16th century, with the two central bays being relatively narrow. It was likely storeyed from the beginning, and there is a later single-bay addition to the left end, probably from the 19th century. The inn has two storeys and stands on a brick plinth. The roof is half-hipped on the left and gabled on the right, with a red and grey brick ridge stack to the left of the center and a projecting brick stack at the right gable end. The fenestration is irregular, consisting of three three-light casements: one at each end and one to the right of the center. There are three boarded doors: one to the left of the stack, one to the right of the center, and one towards the right end. To the left, there is a weatherboarded lean-to with a slate roof and a two-light casement. At the rear, there is a short single-storey addition with a stack, located to the left of the center. The interior has only been partially inspected, but it includes a chamfered axial beam and bevelled joists in the left end bay of the 16th-century section. The cross beam between the left and left-central bays is chamfered on either side of the axial beam to the left and continuously chamfered to the right. The cross beam between the two central bays is now interrupted by a 20th-century base for a stack. The cross beam between the right-central and right end bays is morticed for a partition. Additionally, there is a chamfered axial beam, morticed for a partition, and bevelled joists in the right end bay, along with mortices for a four-light diamond mullion ground-floor window in the former left gable end.