Chequers Inn, Thompson

Long low-slung 17th century thatched pub with four rooms of character. On the right is a small room with low beamed ceiling, half timbered walls and a timber upright supporting the ceiling. It has a rare feature of a bar counter of wooden casks - half casks in this case with a wooden top - this style of counter was added to pubs around 1960 but few examples survive. The largish brick fireplace is old (now with a log burner) - note the old fire (insurance) plaque on the wall.

The front door leads into a very small low beamed public bar with a red tiled floor. The bar counter here looks like it was added in the early 1960s and is of brick with three wooden supports and wooden top, and the bar back shelving is also post-war. The small brick fireplace looks like a 1960s replacement with a copper hood and signs of an old oven on the left.

Left of the main bar is a tiny snug with just one small table and a beamed ceiling. On the far left is an open rafter ceilinged dining room with a fine old brick inglenook fireplace with a chimney that reaches to the roof. The small bar counter with a rendered front and wooden top was added in recent times and the bar back shelves are of no great date.