Market Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. A C17 Market hall. 4 related planning applications.
Market Hall
- WRENN ID
- inner-plaster-reed
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1958
- Type
- Market hall
- Address
- Market Hall, High Street, Amersham, HP7 0DG
- OS grid reference
- SU 957 973
- Coordinates
- 51.66653, -0.61685
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Hall, located on the north side of Amersham High Street, was built in 1682 and slightly restored in 1911. The ground floor is constructed of red brick, while the first floor features red stretchers with grey headers. It has a lead hipped old tile roof topped with an octagonal wooden cupola that includes a drum with a clock face, a round-headed open arcade, a flattened conical roof, and a gilded ball with a weather vane. The building is adorned with a modillion cornice, stone quoins, a floor band, imposts, and keyblocks.
The ground floor has round-headed open arcading, which is blocked by staircases in the northeast and northwest corners. The first floor is distinguished by six large 2-light wood mullion and transom casements with flat arches. At the center, there is a projecting cartouche supported by moulding and a console, featuring an achievement with a crest of a raised forearm and hand holding a metal axe. Each side elevation of the first floor has a central raised stone panel carved with the Drake monogram and the date 1682. Additionally, towards the north end of the east side wall, there is a pump with a lead head dated 1785.
Local climate
Market Hall 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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