53 and 54, 56, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. Building.
53 and 54, 56, High Street
- WRENN ID
- high-doorway-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1954
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 53 and 54, 56, High Street, West Wycombe
- OS grid reference
- SU 829 946
- Coordinates
- 51.64469, -0.80279
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
53 and 54, 56 High Street is a group of 18th-century buildings located in West Wycombe. The buildings are constructed of colour-washed brick with old tiled roofs and stand two storeys tall.
On the ground floor, No 53 features a six-panelled door, a three-light wooden mullioned casement, and a double-hung sash window. No 56 has a six flush-panelled door, a canted wooden oriel window supported by brackets, and a left-hand passageway, all beneath a cornice hood. The first floor of both buildings includes two double-hung sash windows set in surrounds, with a band that is interrupted by the windows. All windows have glazing bars.
No 54, which incorporates No 55, is located at the back and is also an 18th-century structure made of flint rubble with red brick dressings, quoins, and flush sill bands, topped with an old tiled roof. It has two storeys, two casements, and ground floor windows that feature cambered relieving arches. There is a six-panelled door, but the doorway on the north side is now blocked up.
These buildings, along with Nos 35 to 37, The Church Loft, Nos 45 to 54, Nos 56 to 59, Steps House, The Plough Inn, The Apple Orchard, The Old Smithy, West Wycombe Estate Office, Rose Cottage, and Ness Cottage, form a cohesive group.
Local climate
53 and 54, 56, High 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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