AYLESFORD CP HIGH STREET TO 7258 (south side) 12/59 The Chequers Public 1.8.52 House GV II* House, now public house. Early C16. Timber-framed with plaster infilling. Plain tiled roof with 3 small return gables and two ridge stacks, to left and to right of centre. 2½ storeys; front jettied out over ground and first floors on moulded bressummers, that over first floor supported on carved wooden brackets. Irregular fenestration with 3 windows in gables of 2nd floor, sliding casements, with 2 small windows flanking central gable. 10 windows on 1st floor, including 2 oriels, supported by brackets and S-profile coves, below gables. Six windows on ground floor. All windows on 1st and ground floors casements except 2 glaz- ing bar sashes to the left on the ground floor. 4 doors on ground floor, 2 each to left and right of centre; from left, boarded and ribbed, half-glazed, doubled half-glazed and half-glazed respectively, all C20 in date. Interior: much evidence of internal timber-framing. Listing NGR: TQ7291258977