Building record 0421702000 - TRESCO HOUSE & WELLER HOUSE, 31, 33 & 33A HIGH STREET

Summary

Seventeenth century or earlier timber-framed house refronted in the eighteenth century, formerly an inn

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1221471: NOS 31, 33 AND 33A HIGH STREET (DBC6605)

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Type and Period (3)

  • HOUSE (17th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD? to 1799 AD)
  • INN (17th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD? to 1799 AD?)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD? to 1699 AD?)

Description

Grade II. C18 refronting of earlier timber framed house, once an inn. Brown red brick with red brick quoins, dressings and flat arches. Old tiled roof behind parapet with moulded brick coping. Large brick chimney on right. Two storeys, first floor band, cement plinth. Three double hung sash windows in reveals to both floors, 6-panelled door to left, 2 panels flush in panelled reveals and surround of Roman Doric pilasters carrying entablature and pediment. Smaller half glazed door on right (No 31) with glazing bars and pedimented hood. Brick rear wing with stone inscribed 1807 TD (Tyrwhitt Drake). Has two double-hung sash windows to first floor, ground floor altered. This wing continues into a timber framed structure with brick infill, old tiled roof, partly No 33A (Weller House). East front has modern openings and dormers, west elevation to garden of No 35 unaltered.
Rear elevation of main house of three rendered gables, the left hand one over carriageway of No 29 [0421701000]. First floor has exposed timber framing with brick infill. Three casements and one sash window, lean-to additions to ground floor. Timber framing exposed in gable walls. Interior: No 33 front ground floor room on left has chamfered ceiling beams, rear room has C18 corner cupboard with arched head, shaped shelves. Reset C17 panelling in first floor front room, C18 panelling and moulded cornice in first floor of rear wing. (RCHM I p 5 MON 10) (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC19816 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1984. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Buckinghamshire: Chiltern District: Parishes of Amersham, Chesham Bois and Coleshill. pp25-26.

Location

Grid reference SU 95714 97340 (point)
Civil Parish AMERSHAM, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Mar 8 2023 10:37PM

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