Chequers

Chequers
Chequers
	Chequers – the official country residence of British Prime Ministers since 1921
Alternative names	Chequers Court
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Official residence (weekend home)
Architectural style	Elizabethan
Address	Missenden Road; Aylesbury; Buckinghamshire; HP17 0UZ
Country	England
Coordinates	51°44′36″N 0°46′55″W / 51.74333°N 0.78194°W
Current tenants	Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Completed	c.1556
Client	William Hawtrey
Owner	The Chequers Trust
Technical details
Material	Red brick with stone dressings and roof tiles
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name	Chequers
Designated	21 June 1955
Reference no.	1125879
National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens
Official name	Chequers
Designated	30 August 1987
Reference no.	1000595
Grade	I

Chequers (/ˈtʃɛkərz/ 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]