Latitude: 51.1963 / 51°11'46"N
Longitude: 0.2751 / 0°16'30"E
OS Eastings: 559059
OS Northings: 146584
OS Grid: TQ590465
Mapcode National: GBR MP0.Y3G
Mapcode Global: VHHQ6.Q697
Plus Code: 9F3257WG+G2
Entry Name: Ye Olde Chequers Inn
Listing Date: 8 May 1950
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1069979
English Heritage Legacy ID: 178693
Also known as: Ye Olde Chequers Inn, Tonbridge
ID on this website: 101069979
Location: Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, TN9
County: Kent
District: Tonbridge and Malling
Electoral Ward/Division: Castle
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Tonbridge
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: Tonbridge St Peter and St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
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
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