Description

LAMBERHURST THE BROADWAY
TQ 6636-6736
(east side)
8/234 The Chequers Inn
GV II

Inn. C16 or earlier, altered and extended early C18 and early C19. Timber framed and
clad and extended with painted brick ground floor and tile hung first floor with
some weather boarding to rear. Plain tiled roofs. Hall house in origin, much
extended. Two storeys with bell cast eaves drop to first floor and with roof hipped
to right, half-hipped to left with stack cluster to centre right and stacks at end
left and offset and projecting at end right and to rear left and rear right. Roof
stepped down to left to lower pitched hipped and returned roof of added wing. Five
bay frontage of wooden casements throughout with two storey canted bays with half
timbered finialed gables to left and to right, central gabled half dormer and
casements to centre left and centre right on first floor and with central C19 cross
window on ground floor with half glazed doors to left in projecting columned porch
and to right. Right return wing with 2 glazing bar sashes on first floor and
transomed casement on ground floor with small hipped bakehouse around rear stack.
Glazing bar sashes, single and tripartite, also on left return. Main range with
catslide outshot. Two storey, basement and garret wing attached to rear left, with
half-hipped roof, casement windows on upper floors, glazing bar sash on ground
floor and boarded doors to right and to basement. Interior: frame visible; inglenook
fireplaces.

Listing NGR: TQ6762436231

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26392359

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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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)