The Hen and Chickens Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 1993. A Early Modern Public house.

The Hen and Chickens Public House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 May 1993
Type
Public house
Period
Early Modern
Address
The Hen and Chickens Public House, Botley Road, Chesham
OS grid reference
SP 978 021
Coordinates
51.70945, -0.58587
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Hen and Chickens Public House is a former open hall house that has been converted into a public house. It dates from the early 16th century and has undergone later alterations and additions. The building features a timber frame with brick infill and encasement from the 19th century. It has an old tiled pitched roof with two gabled dormers at the front. There is an external gable stack on the right and an axial ridge stack on the left made of thin bricks. The structure is one and a half storeys tall and has a seven-window range on the ground floor. There are two entrances, with the one on the right featuring a bracketed, tiled hood. Most of the windows are 20th-century casements.

Inside, the building reveals the timber frame of a three-bay hall house with a queen post roof. The rear pitch of the roof has arched windbraces, while the front has been repaired. The right-hand bay is open to the roof, the central bay has a low ceiling, and the left-hand bay features a chamfered and stopped spine beam along with an inglenook fireplace that has a chamfered bressumer. The left-hand bay is a later addition, likely from the late 17th or early 18th century, and includes a cellar and a short cross icing to the rear.

Local climate

The Hen and Chickens Public House 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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