The Chequered Skipper Public House is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 November 1998. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Chequered Skipper Public House
- WRENN ID
- calm-rubble-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 November 1998
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Chequered Skipper Public House, Ashton Green, PE8 5LD
- OS grid reference
- TL 056 882
- Coordinates
- 52.48223, -0.44613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chequered Skipper is a public house dating to 1900-01, designed by William Huckvale for Charles Rothschild. It is constructed of coursed squared stone with a thatched roof, and features right ridge and left end stacks with moulded ashlar linked double and quadruple flues. The building is an example of Vernacular Revival style. The plan is canted, with the central section projecting forward, its roof descending to first-floor level to create a verandah between two two-storey cross-wings. The cross-wings incorporate a three-light stone mullioned window with a hoodmould, above a similar four-light window. The verandah includes part-glazed doors and two- and four-light windows. A two-light and three-light dormer is set into the roof with picturesque asymmetry. A VR postbox is set into the gable on the right. Mullioned windows and doors are present on the ends and on extensions to the right and rear. The interior bar area is a large, single space. The public house forms part of a significant group of buildings on the model estate of Ashton, commissioned by Charles Rothschild.
Local climate
The Chequered Skipper Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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