Building record 0421700000 - THE GABLES, 27 HIGH STREET

Summary

Late sixteenth century house with Dutch gables, extended in the eighteenth century

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II*) 1221468: THE GABLES (DBC6603)

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Type and Period (1)

  • HOUSE (16th Century to 18th Century - 1500 AD to 1799 AD)

Description

Plan Form - Rectangular.
House of two storeys and attic built 2nd half of 16th century. Now covered in cement. Fully described (B2).
Grade II+. Late C16 now cement rendered and colourwashed. Old tile roof with 2 elaborate Dutch gables. 2 storeys, 2 canted bays. Gables are linked with finials on top and at each end; each contains one 2-light stone mullion lattice casement. Bays have on each floor 1 cement rendered mullion and transom 4-light lattice casement surmounted by entablature. Right hand bay's ground floor has been squared by slight side extensions C18, and contains 6 panel door, 2 panels now glass - in panelled reveal, and 1 double hung sash. Interior C16 and C17 panelling and carved C17 overmantel. (RCHM I p 5 MON 8)(B7).
Pottery from garden (001). Also found were oyster shells and building debris.

Sources (7)

  • <1>SBC1435 Unpublished document: BCM CAS RECORD CARD 4217.
  • <2>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 1. p5 (Monument 8).
  • <3>SBC444 Article in serial: ANON 1955-1956 NOTES RECS BUCKS16 PP110-114, P112.
  • <4>SBC11259 Unpublished document: OS RECORD CARD SU 99 NE 8 (FILED)..
  • <5>SBC10008 Map: O.S. 1975 50 INCH MAP.
  • <6>SBC9571 Unpublished document: Mrs M Jones & E Clive Rouse. 1986. MRS.M.JONES (MISS WADGE'S EXECUTOR) AND MR.E.C.ROUSE, OCT.1986 (CORRESPONDENCE FILED).
  • <7>SBC19816 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1984. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Buckinghamshire: Chiltern District: Parishes of Amersham, Chesham Bois and Coleshill. p24.

Location

Grid reference Centred SU 95734 97334 (0m by 1m)
Civil Parish AMERSHAM, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 13 2024 5:58PM

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