17, Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. A C17 House.
17, Market Square
- WRENN ID
- calm-outpost-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 17, Market Square, Chesham
- OS grid reference
- SP 959 014
- Coordinates
- 51.70396, -0.61311
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
17 Market Square is a building from the 17th century or earlier that has been altered. It features a stucco front and a steeply pitched tiled roof. The building has two storeys and includes a 20th-century shop front with a cornice. On the first floor, there are four casement windows with wooden mullions and transoms. A modillion cornice is present at the eaves level. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 7 to 17 (odd).
Local climate
17, Market Square 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2006
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- 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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