Monument record 0842900000 - 148 Abercromby Avenue, High Wycombe

148 Abercromby Avenue comprising two buildings - one a two-storey former furniture factory built end-on to the road with a road to the side leading to the second building at the rear, also of two storeys with an external staircase and still used as an upholstery workshop in 2004. Both are built of red brick with slate pitched roofs. As at 2004, front building occupied by Lawrence & Hayward, Engineers, and the rear workshop by M & M Upholstery. Probably built early 1900s. Both have metal windows. A third single storey flat roofed building in rear yard is modern. Front building had sliding loading doors to ground and upper storeys and an external staircase at the rear. In 1923 numbers 146-161 Abercrombie (sic) Avenue were occupied by Ellis & Howland who made all kinds of chairs and settees (The Cabinet Maker and Complete House Furnisher, 27 October 1923). That magazine also has a poor quality photograph of the building. See report for detail and photographs (B1).