Description

FLAMSTEAD LONDON ROAD
TL 01 SE
(South side)
Friars Wash
4/39 Chequers
26.1.67
II

House, for many years up to 1950s the Chequers Inn, now a private house.
C17, E bay C18 and brickwork to front, rear wing and outshuts C19.
Timber frame exposed with brick infill all painted over, dark
weatherboarded at rear, painted brick E bay, steep old red tile roofs,
hipped rear wing and lean-to extension to W end. A 2-storeys, 3-units
house with internal chimney a third from W end and a formerly E gable
chimney enclosed by a one-bay extension towards river. N front to former
Watling Street/Holyhead Road has 4 windows on 1st floor. 9-panes
2-lights Yorkshire sliding casements. 3 on ground floor and battened
door in middle of house in heavy frame with fluted pilasters support
shaped brackets with guttae to moulded flat hood. Small eaves soffit.
Brick E bay, similarly pointed and with cambered arches to windows.
Interior has higher 1st floor in 2 W bays as if a separate build. Jowled
posts support straight tie-beams. Clasped-purlin roof with collar-and-
queen-struts trusses and straight wind-braces. Straight braces to
tie-beams. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL0860014979

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26392560

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper