Ye Olde Chequers Inn

1. HIGH STREET 1732 (West Side)

No 122 (Ye Olde Chequers Inn) TQ 5946 NW 3/23 8.5.50.

II* GV

1. Very good example of a C15 timber-framed building. 3 storeys. 5 windows. Built in 4 sections, 2 projecting, 2 recessed. The southernmost section has the top of a pointed arch leading to the basement and now a shoot for goods; ground floor studded with an oriel window of 6 lights with wooden mullions and transom, cove beneath it and moulded cornice over; first floor projecting on the protruding ends of the floor Joists and brackets with wide curved braces and modern casement windows with lozenge-shaped panes; second floor similarly projecting with gable above having decorative curved timbers arranged in the opposite way to the braces and forming a semi-circle, also cusped bargeboards. The second section is recessed but the ground floor is now built out with a modern window, above studded with 5-light modern casement window and a dormer. The third section containing the doorways has a first floor projecting on brackets with a cove beneath, curved braces, a sash window and a dormer with casement window. The north section had its first floor formerly jettied on the projecting ends of the floor but the ground floor is now under- built with 2 modern windows; curved braces and 2 sash windows on first floor; gable above but lower than the other with 1 casement window, curved timbers arranged the opposite way to the braces below and cusped bargeboards. Tiled roof. Glazing bars intact in the sash windows. 2 modern doorways.

Nos 122, 124, 126, 126A and 128 together form a group

Listing NGR: TQ5905646586