Outbuilding to Rear of Number 161 is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. Outbuilding.
Outbuilding to Rear of Number 161
- WRENN ID
- twisted-lintel-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1958
- Type
- Outbuilding
- Address
- Outbuilding to Rear of Number 161, High Street, Amersham, HP7 0EB
- OS grid reference
- SU 953 974
- Coordinates
- 51.66814, -0.62211
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century outbuilding located at the rear of Number 161 on Amersham High Street. The building is constructed of colourwashed brick and features an old tile roof. It stands two storeys high and has a first-floor band. On the ground floor, there is a door on the right supported by wooden posts, alongside a three-light casement window with a raised cambered arch. The first floor also has a three-light casement window. The west flank wall is double gabled and includes two floorbands, two two-light attic windows, a door, and another three-light casement window to the left of the ground floor. Additionally, there is a one-storey rear wing that is weatherboarded and has an old tile roof, which connects the house to a small barn that is also weatherboarded and features an old tile roof.
Local climate
Outbuilding to Rear of Number 161 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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