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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 SW 151 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | THE CHEQUERS INN |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1632
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5306 5460 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55SW |
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| Parish: | SEVENOAKS, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1500 AD to 1632 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1085984: THE CHEQUERS INN |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HIGH STREET 1. 1614 (West Side) No 73 (The Chequers Inn) TQ 5354/1/41 13.4.51 II 2. C16 or early C17 framed structure. Symmetrical stucco elevation to High Street with first floor over-sailing and supported on timber brackets. Large gables to right and left with centre parapet and ridge tile roof. 2 storeys with attic gable windows and centre gabled dormer. Ground floor with painted weatherboarding in centre and stucco plinth. 2 half-glazed and panelled doors with square-paned window in centre. Casement window to left and splayed projecting bay window to right. First floor with 3 sets of widely spaced mullioned casements with ornamental moulded dripstones over. Painted panel in centre beneath centre window with inn sign. Parapet in centre with moulded stucco coping. Ornamental C19 bargeboards to gables and centre dormer. Projecting wooden post in centre with suspended inn sign. London Road elevation is of painted brick elevation with painted brick plinth. 2 storeys. 2-window facase. Projecting eaves and gutter. Hipped mansard tiled roof with sprocketed eaves. 2 flat-roofed leaded dormers with sliding casements. Ground floor with centre half-glazed and panelled door with glazing bars and rectangular fanlight and flat projecting bracketed hood over. Splayed projecting bay to left of door containing sash windows with glazing bars and moulded headpiece with flat roof. Projecting oriel window to right of door containing square-paned casements with top lights and dentilled headpiece with flat roof. 2 carved brackets supporting oriel window. First floor with 2 tripartite sash windows with glazing bars. Rainwater-pipe in centre. Pro- jecting wooden arm in centre with suspended inn sign. To left of main eleva- tion and projecting, C18 addition of painted brick with random stone plinth, 2 storeys, moulded eaves and gutter and hipped tile roof. One sash window with glazing bars in centre on ground floor. 2 similar sash windows on first floor.
Listing NGR: TQ5306454600 (1)
In 1994 a survey on cellars in the Sevenoaks area was undertaken. Chequers Inn, 73 High Street was found to have the entire floor area taken by the cellar. There is a Lime pit in part of cellar. Under front haklf. (2)
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> ?, 1994, Sevenoaks Cellar Survey (Unpublished document). SKE17186.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: ?. 1994. Sevenoaks Cellar Survey. |
