The Checkers Hotel

Inn, painted roughcast with roof of old small slates, flat eaves, and brick end stacks. Two storeys, three bays with three horned 16-pane large sashes above, flush with front wall over a pair of narrow 4-pane horned sash windows each side, also flush with wall face, flanking centre doorway with pilasters, fascia and cornice on shaped brackets. Six-panel door. To rear, roof slopes down to right over later addition. Long NE rear wing with W wall of painted brick and E wall of stone with brick dentilled eaves and brick quoins. N end addition in painted brick with N end casement-pair with small panes on ground floor. W side has two first floor triple casements with overlights and iron opening lights and a modern flat-roofed addition.

Stone setts in front.

Front right hand room has an axial beam and joists, opened into rear room. Left room, also opened out has two covered axial beams. Rear wall on first floor has exposed timber-framed panels. C17 style wood panelling on S passage wall. Windbraces to roof.