Chequers

Chequers
Chequers – the official country residence of British Prime Ministers since 1921
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Alternative namesChequers Court
General information
StatusCompleted
TypeOfficial residence (weekend home)
Architectural styleElizabethan
AddressMissenden Road
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire
HP17 0UZ
CountryEngland
Coordinates51°44′36″N 0°46′55″W / 51.74333°N 0.78194°W / 51.74333; -0.78194
Current tenantsKeir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Completedc.1556; 468 years ago (1556)
ClientWilliam Hawtrey
OwnerThe Chequers Trust
Technical details
MaterialRed brick with stone dressings and roof tiles
Listed Building – Grade I
Official nameChequers
Designated21 June 1955
Reference no.1125879
Official nameChequers
Designated30 August 1987
Reference no.1000595
GradeI

Chequers (/ˈɛkərz/ CHEK-ərz) is the country house of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. A 16th-century manor house in origin, it is near the village of Ellesborough, halfway between Princes Risborough and Wendover in Buckinghamshire, at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, 40 miles (64 km) north-west of central London. Coombe Hill is two-thirds of a mile (1.1 km) northeast. Chequers has been the country home of the serving Prime Minister since 1921 after the estate was given to the nation by Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham by 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.[1]

  1. ^ Historic England, "Chequers (1125879)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 22 December 2016