54, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. A C17 House.

54, High Street

WRENN ID
keen-terrace-larch
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
54, High Street, Amersham
OS grid reference
SU 955 973
Coordinates
51.66691, -0.61928
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

54 High Street is a building dating from the 17th century or earlier, which has been altered and refronted in the early 19th century. It features colourwashed brick, with the first floor displaying exposed timber framing. The roof is covered with old tiles and has a central brick chimney stack with four diagonal shafts. There is a gabled wing on the left and a smaller gable on the right. The building is two storeys high and has two wide double-hung sash windows in reveal on both floors. On the right side, there is a six-panel door, with two fielded panels, topped by a cornice hood. The gabled rear wing is timber framed with red brick infill and has a tiled roof, also two storeys high. Inside, the ground floor includes two large moulded fireplace beams and a stair balustrade with splat balusters. It is noted that the first-floor room over the carriageway in No 56 is part of No 54.

Local climate

54, 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 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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