Tresco House Weller House
31, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221471
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Tresco House Weller House
- Statutory Address:
- 31, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221471
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Tresco House Weller House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 31, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- TRESCO HOUSE, 33, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- WELLER HOUSE, 33A, HIGH STREET
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 31, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- TRESCO HOUSE, 33, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WELLER HOUSE, 33A, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Amersham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 95717 97365
Details
1. AMERSHAM HIGH STREET 5134 (north side)
Nos 31 and 33 (Tresco House) and No 33A (Weller House)
SU 9597 SE 7/51 22.12.58
II
2. C18 refronting of earlier timber framed house, once an inn. Brown red brick with red brick quoins, dressings and flat arches. Old tiled roof behind parapet with moulded brick coping. Large brick chimney on right. Two storeys, first floor band, cement plinth. Three double hung sash windows in reveals to both floors, 6-panelled door to left, 2 panels flush in panelled reveals and surround of Roman Doric pilasters carrying entablature and pediment. Smaller half glazed door on right (No 31) with glazing bars and pedimented hood. Brick rear wing with stone inscribed 1807 TD (Tyrwhitt Drake). Has two double-hung sash windows to first floor, ground floor altered. This wing continues into a timber framed structure with brick infill, old tiled roof, partly No 33A (Weller House). East front has modern openings and dormers, west elevation to garden of No 35 unaltered.
Rear elevation of main house of three rendered gables, the left hand one over carriageway of No 29 (q.v.). First floor has exposed timber framing with brick infill. Three casements and one sash window, lean-to additions to ground floor. Timber framing exposed in gable walls. Interior: No 33 front ground floor room on left has chamfered ceiling beams, rear room has C18 corner cupboard with arched head, shaped shelves. Reset C17 panelling in first floor front room, C18 panelling and moulded cornice in first floor of rear wing.
(RCHM I p 5 MON 10).
Listing NGR: SU9571797365
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 413292
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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