Chesham Underground Station including water tower to south and signal box to south-east is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 2011. Underground station. 3 related planning applications.
Chesham Underground Station including water tower to south and signal box to south-east
- WRENN ID
- stranded-entrance-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 2011
- Type
- Underground station
- Address
- Chesham Underground Station including water tower to south and signal box to south-east, Station Road, HP5 1DH
- OS grid reference
- SP 960 016
- Coordinates
- 51.70508, -0.61113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chesham Underground Station, which opened in 1889, is an underground railway station that features a water tower to the south and a signal box to the southeast.
The entrance building is constructed of stock brick and has a Welsh slate roof. It is L-shaped, with the booking hall located in the shorter section to the north and offices, a waiting room, and toilets in the longer section to the south. There is a single canopied platform.
The exterior of the entrance building has a short façade facing the station forecourt, which includes two cross-casement windows with moulded stone heads and cills, flanking a central doorway that is set beneath an off-centre canopy supported by two timber posts with curved braces (one of the posts has been removed). The building features a low hipped roof with two brick stacks. The platform has a four-bay canopy with a ridge-and-furrow roof supported by cast-iron columns and decorative openwork spandrel-brackets.
Inside, the booking hall retains its original fireplace, cornice, and matchboard panelling, with vertical panelling to dado height and horizontal panelling above. The waiting room has modern tiles below the dado but retains original boarding and cornice above. The gents' toilets feature original boarded partitions.
Additional features include a square brick water tower to the south, designed in a Classical style with keystone relieving arches and a dentil course, topped by a large iron tank. There is also a timber signal box on a brick base opposite the platform, which has curved eaves brackets and a hipped slate roof.
Local climate
Chesham Underground Station including water tower to south and signal box to south-east 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 — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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