Most of the eastern side of this magnificent inn survives, though regrettably approximately half of the total structure was destroyed in a great fire on 22nd August 1865. The inn itself, a large three storeyed, jettied building, with galleried internal court, incorporated an impressive stone arcade on the ground floor which still survives at the corner of Mercery Lane and the High Street.

No.2 High Street (Hiltons) and adjoining properties to the east are all contained within the surviving fabric of the Cheker. Refitting of the ground floor shop enabled additional information to be added to the existing survey of the building. Floor framing above the shop was largely intact, comprising double wall plates with closely set joists jettied over the former stone arcade. Chamfers on the inner wall-plate indicate the arrangement of doors and windows in the original facade. Although only fragments of a door jamb remain, partial restoration of the stone facade has since been possible.

Access to the cellars of the western range (before its destruction in 1865) was through a passage below the principal entry giving onto the inner court from the High Street. The doorway to the passage survives in the cellar below Hiltons This doorway is dressed with shallow cavetto mouldings similar to those used on the facade above. Two substantial posts, resting on stone pads in Hiltons cellar, still support fabric rising over fifty feet from the basement floor. Mortices in the underside of a first floor tie-beam now the west wall of Hiltons indicate the position of the east side of the entry giving onto the inn's inner court.