Description

TL 2928 ARDELEY CROMER
(west side)

6/12 Chequers

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GV II

House, sometime The Chequers public house. C17. Timber frame
plastered with panelled pargetting. Old red tile roofs, steep
slated roof to rear wing. An L-plan house facing road on E.
Single-bay 2-storeys and cellar on corner with lower one and a
half storeys wing extending to rear (W) containing stair and
dairy with kitchen beyond large central chimney. Single-storey
former stable extending to N now part of house. On E front this
has 3 2-light casement windows and the corner wing has a small 2-
light flush casement window above a hipped roofed rectangular bay
window with casements. Brick steps on left rise between red
brick piers to an open porch with hipped tiled roof carried on 3
cast iron slender Corinthian columns rising from a brick parapet.
S side has small casement windows, boarded doors and a gabled 2-
light dormer window. Similar dormer on N side. Interior has
unjowled posts, chamfered axial floor-beams, cambered tie-beams
to rear wing, winding stair, and exposed timbers. Large,
formerly external N-side chimney to corner wing. Picturesque
building at N entrance to village.

Listing NGR: TL2984528588

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26394894

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)