54 and 56, Church Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1951. Timber-framed house. 1 related planning application.
54 and 56, Church Street
- WRENN ID
- sharp-foundation-stoat
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1951
- Type
- Timber-framed house
- Address
- 54 and 56, Church Street, Chesham, HP5 1HY
- OS grid reference
- SP 957 014
- Coordinates
- 51.70375, -0.61569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
54 and 56 Church Street is a 14th-century timber-framed house that has been enlarged and altered in the 17th century. It features plaster infilling and an old tiled roof with a large red brick chimney. The ground floor includes a shop window and a bay window from the early 19th century. The first floor has sash and casement windows, and there is a gable sash window with an original 14th or 15th-century richly carved wood tracery head. Inside, there is a crown post supporting the roof truss. The building is part of a group with Nos 46 to 58 (even).
Local climate
54 and 56, Church 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 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 — 1 application
- 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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