Building record 1245710000 - 70 & 72 HIGH STREET

Summary

Pair of seventeenth century timber-framed houses on Amersham High Street

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1222348: NOS 70 AND 72 HIGH STREET

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Type and Period (3)

  • HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)
  • LOBBY ENTRY HOUSE? (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)

Description

Grade II. C17 restored. Red brick, upper part with exposed timber framing. Old tile roof, three gables, brick stack on ridge between central and right-hand gable, above door to No 72. Two storeys, two doors, No 72 with C18 bracketted hood, No 72 modern. Four modern casements to ground floor, three to first floor. Plastered gabled wing to rear of No 72. (RCHM I p 8 MON 32) (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. p53.

Location

Grid reference SU 95529 97386 (point)
Civil Parish AMERSHAM, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jan 4 2017 10:04AM

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