Building record 1247103000 - 21 & 23 WHIELDEN STREET

Summary

Pair of seventeenth century timber-framed houses with later alterations, one house formerly a shop

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1238315: NOS 21 AND 23 WHIELDEN STREET

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Type and Period (3)

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

Description

Grade II. C17 altered later. Red and grey brick, some (renewed) timber framing to first floor left hand side. Old tile roof, three gabled dormers with 2-light casements old leaded glazing to outer ones. Coved cornice. Two storeys, giant brick Tuscan pilaster on plinth between No 21 and 23, one bay of first floor band to left. No 21 has modern door and 3-light leaded casement, with segmental arches, one 2-light transomed leaded casement to first floor. No 23 has modern door with pediment hood on bracjets, 3-light leaded casement each side, that on right in former carriageway, both having flat arches. Old 2-light transomed casement to right of first floor, two 3-light casement to left, all leaded and with flat arches. Former shop front (once No 25) on left with bricked up doorway and canted bay window beneath frieze and cornice hood (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. p84.

Location

Grid reference SU 95759 97207 (point)
Civil Parish AMERSHAM, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 20 2022 2:20PM

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