153 155, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.
153 155, High Street
- WRENN ID
- knotted-gateway-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1958
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 153 155, High Street, Amersham, HP7 0EB
- OS grid reference
- SU 954 974
- Coordinates
- 51.66799, -0.62192
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century red brick building with an old tile roof, featuring two hipped dormers and a brick dentil cornice. It has a plinth and two storeys. The centre of the building has two doorways, each protected by a small, bracketed hood. To either side of the doorways are a three-light casement window with a segmental arch, and four two-light casement windows to the first floor, also with segmental arches.
Local climate
153 155, 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 — 5 transactions since 1999
- 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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