70 72, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. House. 3 related planning applications.
70 72, High Street
- WRENN ID
- veiled-roof-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- 70 72, High Street, Amersham, HP7 0DT
- OS grid reference
- SU 955 973
- Coordinates
- 51.66714, -0.62009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 70 and 72, High Street, are a 17th-century building that has been restored. The building is constructed of red brick, with the upper portion featuring exposed timber framing. It has an old tile roof with three gables, and a brick stack rises from the ridge between the central and right-hand gable, positioned above the door to No 72. There is a modern door to No 72, with a 18th-century bracketed hood above it. The ground floor has four modern casement windows, and the first floor has three. A plastered gabled wing extends to the rear of No 72.
Local climate
70 72, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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