76 78, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. A C16 Historic building.
76 78, High Street
- WRENN ID
- rough-quartz-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1958
- Type
- Historic building
- Address
- 76 78, High Street, Amersham, HP7 0DS
- OS grid reference
- SU 955 973
- Coordinates
- 51.6672, -0.62027
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 76 and 78 on High Street are a building dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It features a timber frame with painted cement rendered infill, an old tile roof, and a central brick stack. There is a gabled dormer above the carriageway on the left and a plain modern cornice. The building has two storeys and an attic.
No 76 has a half-glazed door with a hood on the left, two leaded casements on the ground floor, and a three-light headed casement on the first floor. No 78 has a modern door on the right, a three-light wood casement on the left, and a similar window on the first floor. The rear elevation includes a gabled dormer above the carriage arch and features a two-storey timber frame and brick wing for No 76, while No 78 has a tile-hung wing.
Local climate
76 78, 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
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