Building record 0421703000 - 35, 37 & 39 HIGH STREET

Summary

Seventeenth century timber-framed houses with late nineteenth and twentieth century shop fronts

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1221473: NOS 35, 37 AND 39 HIGH STREET

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Type and Period (4)

  • HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)
  • SHOP (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • SHOP (20th Century - 1900 AD to 1999 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)

Description

Grade II. C17 altered. Timber framed; tiled roof. An irregular composition 5 bays wide, that on the right advanced somewhat and with a hipped roof. No 35 two storeys; 2 bays wide, Stucco ground floor with late C19 shop front. 1st floor with 2 slightly off centre sash windows complete with probably altered glazing bars. At the rear, the property shares with No 37 a timber framed and brick gabled projecting wing. No 37. One and a half storeys; 1 bay wide. Stucco ground floor with projecting modern Shop front. 1st floor with a single small casement window. The tiled roof continuous with that of No 39. At the rear the property shares with No 35 a timber framed and brick gabled projecting wing. No 39 (Buckingham Gate). 3 bays wide, one of one storey, one of 2 and with a small gable and one of 2 storeys plus attic and with a larger gable whose upper part has exposed timber framing with brick infill. Stucco. Bay 1 with carriageway; 2nd bay with, on the ground floor, 2 casement windows beneath a tiled lean-to roof and above a single sash window with glazing bars; 3rd bay with a broad casement window beneath a tiled lean-to roof continuous with that in that 2nd bay and, on the 1st floor, a single sash window with glazing bars and, in the attic, a tripartite casement with leaded lights (B1).

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SBC1435 Unpublished document: BCM CAS RECORD CARD 4217.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SBC11259 Unpublished document: OS RECORD CARD SU 99 NE 8 (FILED)..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SBC9571 Unpublished document: Mrs M Jones & E Clive Rouse. 1986.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. p26.

Location

Grid reference SU 95697 97348 (point)
Civil Parish AMERSHAM, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 13 2024 5:59PM

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