The Chequers Inn

The Chequers Inn is a public house dating back to the 16th century or earlier, with significant alterations and extensions during the early 18th and 19th centuries. It is a timber-framed building, largely clad in painted brick on the ground floor, tile hanging on the first floor, and some weatherboarding to the rear, with plain tiled roofs. Originally a hall house, it has been substantially extended.

The building is two storeys high, featuring bell-cast eaves to the first floor and a hipped roof to the right, a half-hipped roof to the left, and a cluster of stacks in the centre right, with further stacks at the end left, and offset and projecting at the end right and to the rear left and right. The roof steps down to the left to a lower pitched hipped and returned roof of an added wing. The front has five bays of wooden casement windows, with two-storey canted bays featuring half-timbered finialed gables to the left and right, a central gabled half-dormer, and casements in the centre left and centre right on the first floor. The ground floor has a central 19th-century cross window, and half-glazed doors in a projecting columned porch to the left and right.

The right return has two glazing bar sashes on the first floor and a transomed casement on the ground floor, with a small hipped bakehouse around the rear stack. Glazing bar sashes, single and tripartite, are also present on the left return. The main range has a catslide outshot. A two-storey, basement and garret wing is attached to the rear left, with a half-hipped roof, casement windows on the upper floors, a glazing bar sash on the ground floor and boarded doors to the right and to the basement.

The interior retains visible timber framing and inglenook fireplaces.