NHER 50018 (Building record) - 5 Chequers Road

A house of two storeys with a three bay façade of galletted carstone with brick windows - the central door seems to have taken and older window space. Stated to date from 1779AD and to have been part of the Congham Hall estate. The rear and end walls are of a flint, brick and carstone mixture but the west gable wall atht the base is of clunch with a blocked round-headed door or arch in brick - impossible to date except that it is Post-Medieval, this may be a fragment of an earlier building. The interior retains one shell niche of 1779 but otherwise was completely altered after 1958 when timbers brough from the Three Tuns Inn, King's Lynn (NHER 33517) were used to replace the upper floor. There have mortices from their previous use, and assembly numbers, and are large, crude and undatable.
E. Rose (NLA), 4 April 2007.