The Griffin Hotel

The Griffin Hotel is an early 18th century front to an earlier building located on Amersham Broadway. It features a chequer pattern brick façade, an old tile roof, and brick chimney stacks at each end. The building has a wood modillion cornice and three hipped dormers with 2-light casements. It stands three storeys high with an attic and has a moulded band at the first floor. The front has five double hung sash windows in flush wood cases with architrave moulding. The ground floor includes a central carriage arch with a modern canopy and old gates, flanked by two windows with cambered arches and moulded brick cornices above.

To the east, there is a two-storey wing that continues into No 14, constructed of red brick with an old tile roof. This wing has a plinth and a first floor band, a half-glazed door on the left with a hood on shaped brackets, a sash window with a cambered brick arch, and two sash windows on the first floor. The rear elevation of the main building features three gables with painted rendering and a 3-light leaded window at the centre of the second floor, which projects above the first floor with a coved section that continues into the cornices of the flanking two-storey wings. The flanking wings are made of brick with hipped tiled roofs, and there are sash windows on the end elevations, with blank recesses on the inner faces. The eastern wing has one sash window below and is linked to a further wing of earlier date, which is timber framed with brick infill and some weatherboarding, also featuring an old tile roof and two light Yorkshire casements on the east elevation, along with modern garage doors. The interior showcases good 17th century timbers that are exposed.