Monument record 0935800000 - House opposite White Hart Inn, Chalfont St Peter

House opposite the White Hart Inn, is a two-storeyed building, probably of early 17th century date. Lower storey of brick, upper storey timber-framed with brick filling. The roofs are tiled. In front the upper storey projects above a large gateway leading to a yard and is supported on a heavy beam. Inside on the ground floor is a 17th century panelled door and small leaded window in an inner wall. On the the second floor part of a partition is of 17th century panelling. Condition poor [1912](B1).
Wall painting discovered in 1918 (B2).
Painting covers the whole gable space in a room on the first floor and comprises a black-letter text within a curve-ended border, flanked by foliage and flowers, scrollwork and geometric patterns in greens, reds and browns. Fairly crude in design and execution. Date probably no later than 1600. Traces of colour were also noted on the opposite wall. See report for detail (B3).
Extensive and elaborate wall and ceiling paintings in the two main rooms on the first floor discovered during demolition in 1938 and recorded by Clive Rouse and Francis Reader. Painted timber studs recovered from elsewhere in the house suggested that other rooms had also been decorated. Demolition also revealed two late 16th or early 17th century 4-light windows with moulded wooden mullions in the gable facing the street and that all the internals walls were of wattle and daub. See report for detail (B4).
NGR approximate.