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The Chequers Inn

A Grade II Listed Building in Yalding, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2076 / 51°12'27"N

Longitude: 0.4176 / 0°25'3"E

OS Eastings: 568975

OS Northings: 148154

OS Grid: TQ689481

Mapcode National: GBR NQJ.BD7

Mapcode Global: VHJMK.6X44

Plus Code: 9F326C59+22

Entry Name: The Chequers Inn

Listing Date: 14 October 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1349076

English Heritage Legacy ID: 174957

Also known as: Chequers Inn
The Chequers Inn, Maidstone

ID on this website: 101349076

Location: Laddingford, Maidstone, Kent, ME18

County: Kent

District: Maidstone

Civil Parish: Yalding

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

Church of England Parish: Yalding St Peter and St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Rochester

Tagged with: Pub Inn

Description


YALDING TQ 64 NE Laddingford 3/155 The Chequers Inn II

Possibly house, now public house, C16, with C19 facade. Timber framed, weatherboarded, with plain tile roof. Four C16 timber-framed bays, two to centre relatively narrow. Probably storeyed from beginning. Later (C19?) single-bay addition to left end. 2 storeys, on brick plinth. Roof half-hipped to left, gabled to right. Red and grey brick ridge stack to left of centre and projecting brick stack to right gable end. Irregular fenestration of 3 three-light casements; one towards each end and one to right of centre. 3 boarded doors; one left of stack, one to right of centre, and one towards right end. Weatherboarded lean-to to left, with slate roof and one two-light casement. Short single-storey rear addition with stack, to left of centre. Interior: only partly inspected. Chamfered axial beam and bevelled joists to left end bay of C16 section. Cross beam between left and left-central bays is chamfered either side of axial beam to left, and continuously chamfered to right. Cross beam between two central bays now interrupted by C20 base to stack. Cross beam between right-central and right end bays morticed for partition. Chamfered axial beam, morticed for partition, and bevelled joists, to right end bay. Mortices for four-light diamond mullion ground-floor window to former left gable end.

Listing NGR: TQ6897548154

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