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Monument details

HER Number:TR 25 NE 150
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:THE CHEQUER INN

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1480 to 1520.


Grid Reference:TR 28555 58452
Map Sheet:TR25NE
Parish:ASH, DOVER, KENT

Monument Types

  • PUBLIC HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1480 AD to 2050 AD)
  • HOUSE (HOUSE, Medieval - 1490 AD to 1520 AD)
  • HOUSE (HOUSE, Medieval to Post Medieval - 1536 AD to 1570 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1052354: THE CHEQUER INN

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
ASH CHEQUER LANE TR 2858 (west side) 10/1 The Chequer Inn 13.10.52 GV II
House, now public house. Circa. 1500: Timber framed and close studded with plaster infill, underbuilt in part with painted brick and part rendered. Wealden plan of 4 framed bays. Two storeys and basement on high plinth with moulded bressumers to jettied wings of left and right. Wide eaves overhanging whole front on brackets. Hipped roof with gablets and stacks projecting and offset at end left and end right. Double wooden casements to left and 2 wooden casements to right with 2-light mullioned window to centre left on first floor and 5 light transomed and mullioned window to left, tripartite glazing bar sash and casement to centre left and C20 five light transomed and qlazing bar sash to centre, 2-light mullioned window to centre right and glazing bar sash to right on ground floor. Half glazed door with rectangular fanlight in left wing with 3 steps and plain iron rails. Basement opening to left. Half-glazed door in left return. Interior: Full frame visible.
Listing NGR: TR2854858448 (1)

Description from record TR 25 NE 61:
GII 15thC House

Wealden house with formerly open 2-bay hall. The lower end to the south has been reconstructed (2)

Historic England archive material (3)


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

<3> Historic England, Archive material associated with The Chequer Inn, Ash, Listed Building (Archive). SKE56478.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.
<3>Archive: Historic England. Archive material associated with The Chequer Inn, Ash, Listed Building.