16 and 17, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. House.
16 and 17, High Street
- WRENN ID
- unlit-parapet-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- 16 and 17, High Street, West Wycombe, HP14 3AB
- OS grid reference
- SU 829 946
- Coordinates
- 51.64454, -0.80246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 16 and 17 on High Street are 18th-century buildings with a front made of colour-washed brick and an old tiled roof. They are two storeys high with attics and feature four wooden mullion casement windows with two and three lights. The ground floor has cambered relieving arches above the windows. There are two gabled dormers with two-light casement windows. The left side has a cut bracketed door hood, while the right side has two windows, one of which was formerly a door, both under a bracketed hood. The buildings have sprocket eaves and a brick band on the first floor. They are part of a group that includes nearby outbuildings, the Swan Public House, the West Wycombe Branch County Library, and several other listed buildings.
Local climate
16 and 17, 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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