Description

1. HIGH STREET
1732 (West Side)

No 122 (Ye Olde Chequers Inn)
TQ 5946 NW 3/23 8.5.50.

II* GV

2.
Very good example of a C15 timber-framed building. 3 storeys. 5 windows.
Built in 4 sections, 2 projecting, 2 recessed. The southernmost section has
the top of a pointed arch leading to the basement and now a shoot for goods;
ground floor studded with an oriel window of 6 lights with wooden mullions
and transom, cove beneath it and moulded cornice over; first floor projecting
on the protruding ends of the floor Joists and brackets with wide curved
braces and modern casement windows with lozenge-shaped panes; second floor
similarly projecting with gable above having decorative curved timbers arranged
in the opposite way to the braces and forming a semi-circle, also cusped
bargeboards. The second section is recessed but the ground floor is now built
out with a modern window, above studded with 5-light modern casement window
and a dormer. The third section containing the doorways has a first floor
projecting on brackets with a cove beneath, curved braces, a sash window and
a dormer with casement window. The north section had its first floor formerly
jettied on the projecting ends of the floor but the ground floor is now under-
built with 2 modern windows; curved braces and 2 sash windows on first floor;
gable above but lower than the other with 1 casement window, curved timbers
arranged the opposite way to the braces below and cusped bargeboards. Tiled
roof. Glazing bars intact in the sash windows. 2 modern doorways.

Nos 122, 124, 126, 126A and 128 together form a group

Listing NGR: TQ5905646586

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546750

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)