Building record 1245805000 - PIERS PLACE, 130 & 130A HIGH STREET

Summary

Late seventeenth century house called Piers Place, with eighteenth century brick casing and nineteenth century extension

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1237706: NOS 130 AND 130A HIGH STREET (DBC6659)

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Type and Period (1)

  • HOUSE (17th Century to 19th Century - 1600 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Grade II. Late C17 altered and cased C18. Set back from road. Red brick, old tiled roof with three box dormers, parapet with painted band, coped gable end. Two storeys and attic, first floor band. Five double-hung sash arches in flush moulded frames, flat gauged brick arches and wooden cills. 6-fielded panel door with semi-circular traceried fanlight, door surround of attached Roman Doric columns, entablature with paterae and modillion cornice and open modillion pediment. Lower 2-storey wing on west with coped gable, band course, one sash window to first floor. C19 gabled wing (No 130A) in front, one storey, purple brick, tiled roof. Rear elevation has 3 hipped dormers, wooden bracketted eaves, central large semi-circular headed stair window, door with hood below, two sash windows to each side, both floors. West wing also has hipped dormer, wooden eaves, one sash window to first floor (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.

Location

Grid reference SU 95364 97457 (point)
Civil Parish AMERSHAM, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Dec 20 2016 5:43PM

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