Severn House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. House.
Severn House
- WRENN ID
- other-step-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- Severn House, 127, High Street, Amersham, HP7 0DY
- OS grid reference
- SU 955 974
- Coordinates
- 51.66755, -0.62033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Severn House is a late 18th-century building located on the north side of Amersham High Street. It features a red brick facade with yellow brick arches above the door and windows. The building has an old tiled roof with a parapet and stands two storeys tall. The ground floor includes a central round-headed doorway with a double reveal leading to a six-panel door and a fanlight with a radiating pattern. On either side of the door are wide double-hung sash windows with flat gauged arches and projecting sills. The first floor has similar windows above, along with a semi-circular arched window in the center. To the left, there is a lower wing made of red brick with a slate roof, which includes a wide carriageway featuring a gauged elliptical arch and one sash window on the first floor with a flat arch.
Local climate
Severn 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 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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