15, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. Public house.

15, High Street

WRENN ID
first-panel-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 January 1954
Type
Public house
Address
15, High Street, West Wycombe
OS grid reference
SU 829 946
Coordinates
51.64454, -0.80263
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

15 High Street, formerly known as the Black Boy Public House, is a Grade II listed building located on the south side of High Street. It dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century and likely incorporates an earlier structure on the right. The building features colour washed brick and an old tiled roof, standing two storeys tall.

The façade includes a central carriageway, with the right-hand first floor oversailing on cast iron columns and end brackets. There is a continuous ground floor frieze above large 18th-century shop windows that have glazing bars; three windows are to the left of the carriageway, and two flank the door with a cut bracketed hood. The first floor has nine double-hung sash windows set in flush wool architraves, with eight featuring flat arches, sills, and aprons, and a smaller central window above the carriageway, all with glazing bars. A dentil brick cornice crowns the building.

To the rear, there is a left-hand wing with a brick ground floor and an oversailing weatherboarded first floor, also with an old tiled roof. The right-hand wing is made of colour washed brick and has two storeys with two casement windows. The yard is paved with cobbles. This building is part of a group that includes several other notable structures, such as the Swan Public House and the West Wycombe Branch County Library.

Local climate

15, 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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