Chequers
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Chequers or Chequers Court ( ) is the country house of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. A 16th-century manor house, it lies near the village of Ellesborough, halfway between the towns of Princes Risborough and Wendover in Buckinghamshire, at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, north-west of Central London. Coombe Hill, which is northeast, was once mostly part of the estate.
Key facts
- Building.name
- Chequers
- Building.image
- File:Chequers.jpg
- Building.image_caption
- Chequers, the official country residence of British prime ministers since 1921
- Building.alternate_names
- Chequers Court
- Building.architectural_style
- Elizabethan
- Building.address
- Missenden RoadAylesburyBuckinghamshireHP17 0UZ
- Building.completion_date
- c.
- Building.client
- William Hawtrey
- Building.owner
- The Chequers Trust
- Building.material
- Red brick with stone dressings and roof tiles
- Designation list.embed
- yes
- Designation list.designation1
- Grade I Listed Building
- Designation list.designation1_offname
- Chequers
- Designation list.designation1_date
- 21 June 1955
- Designation list.designation2
- National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens
- Designation list.designation2_offname
- Chequers
- Designation list.designation2_date
- 30 August 1987
- Designation list.designation2_number
- 1000595
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- Origin of the name
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- 20th century
- 21st century
- Gallery
- See also
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Chequers or Chequers Court ( ) is the country house of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. A 16th-century manor house, it lies near the village of Ellesborough, halfway between the towns of Princes Risborough and Wendover in Buckinghamshire, at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, north-west of Central London. Coombe Hill, which is northeast, was once mostly part of the estate.
Chequers has been the country home of the serving prime minister since 1921, when it was given to the nation by Viscount Lee of Fareham via a Deed of Settlement, given full effect in the Chequers Estate Act 1917. The house is listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chequers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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