Listed Building record TQ 75 NW 78 - The Chequers Public House, Aylesford
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TQ 7291 5897 (point) FCE |
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Map sheet | TQ75NW |
County | KENT |
District | TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
Civil Parish | AYLESFORD, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
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Type and Period (1)
Full Description
(TQ 72915897) The Chequers Public House, High Street. Grade II* House, now public house. Early 16th century (for full description see list). (1) The Chequers Inn, Aylesford, a long plastered front overhanging at two levels. The upper overhang rests on brackets and there are two timber oriels under it. Small gables with pendants. (2)
Description from record TQ 75 NW 269:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
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 (3)
<1> DOE (HHR) Dist of Tonbridge & Malling 1987 21 (OS Card Reference). SKE40373.
<2> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 140 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37847.
<3> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
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Record last edited
Jul 14 2021 6:55PM