Woodrow High House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Country house. 5 related planning applications.

Woodrow High House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1984
Type
Country house
Address
Woodrow High House, Cherry Lane, Amersham, HP7 0QG
OS grid reference
SU 933 965
Coordinates
51.66033, -0.65175
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Woodrow High House is a small country house located in a park, dating from the early 18th century with later additions. It incorporates elements from an earlier house where Oliver Cromwell's wife and daughters are said to have stayed around 1630. The exterior is finished in painted stucco with slate roofs and parapets. The central block is three storeys high, flanked by single-storey wings added in the late 18th century, with the left-hand wing raised and extended in the early 19th century.

The house features full-height canted bays on either side of the centre, which has a half-glazed door with gothic glazing bars beneath a dentil cornice. There are bands at the first and second floors and a dentil cornice. The double-hung sash windows have a moulded string at head level. The right-hand wing also has a dentil cornice and two sash windows with architraves, along with a canted bay window on the right-hand return elevation. A two-storey rear wing mirrors the design of the right-hand wing. The left-hand wing matches the right but has a later upper storey and features a projecting porch with a round-arched entrance, cornice, and a wooden bell cupola topped with an ogee lead cap and a bell dated 1830.

Inside, the Dining Room boasts bolection moulded panelling, a wood cornice, and a fireplace with an overmantel. The Drawing Room features an Adam style chimneypiece and a moulded cornice, while the Lounge has a plaster modillion cornice. An early 19th-century staircase leads to the first floor, where the "Cromwell Room" includes bolection moulded panelling and an original fireplace with an overmantel. The room opposite contains a 18th-century carved wood fireplace with an oakleaf pulvinated frieze, along with other notable features.

Local climate

Woodrow High House 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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