Building record 0423001000 - 11 & 13 HIGH STREET

Summary

Pair of seventeenth century timber-framed houses with twentieth century shop fronts

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1275155: NOS. 11 AND 13 HIGH STREET

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Type and Period (3)

  • HOUSE (17th Century to 19th Century - 1600 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. Rendered and colour-washed with projecting C19 ground floor of colourwashed brick with Welsh slate roof. Old tile roof with broad brick chimney stack in centre. Two storeys and attic, two 3-light modern casements to first floor with small 2-light casement in centre. 4-pane wide double-hung sash window on right of ground floor, modern door and window to No 11, shop window to No 13. West gable elevation to Church Street has exposed timber framing two windows to each floor and small attic window in gable. (RCHM I p 3 MON 5)(B1).
Nos 9 to 13 badly damaged by fire in June 2008 (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <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. p21.
  • <2>SBC23134 Verbal communication: John Shipley. 2008. Pers comm to Julia Wise (BCC), June 2008.

Location

Grid reference SU 95783 97326 (point)
Civil Parish AMERSHAM, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Mar 9 2023 1:37AM

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