21, Germain Street is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. Commercial.

21, Germain Street

WRENN ID
shadowed-pedestal-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
Country
England
Type
Commercial
Address
21, Germain Street, Chesham
OS grid reference
SP 958 013
Coordinates
51.70283, -0.61403
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

No. 21 Germain Street is a 17th-century building that has been altered over time. It features a timber frame behind a colourwashed brick front and has an old tiled roof with a corbelled brick cornice. The building is two storeys high and has two three-light 19th-century sash windows on the first floor. On the ground floor, there is a casement window on the left and a shop window on the right. To the right, there is a recessed modern one-window wing. This property is included for its group value, as it forms part of a group with Nos. 21, 25, and 27.

Local climate

21, Germain 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. 25 and 27, Germain Street Grade II 15 m
  2. The Meades Grade II 49 m
  3. 16 and 18, Germain Street Grade II 51 m
  4. 33, Germain Street Grade II 67 m
  5. 1, Germain Street Grade II 75 m
  6. Weylands Grade II 82 m
  7. 8, Market Square Grade II 98 m
  8. 10, Market Square Grade II 101 m
  9. 4, Red Lion Street Grade II 105 m
  10. 58, Germain Street Grade II 106 m