Friends' Meeting House and Whielden Cottage
FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE AND WHIELDEN COTTAGE, WHIELDEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1274183
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Friends' Meeting House and Whielden Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE AND WHIELDEN COTTAGE, WHIELDEN STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1274183
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Friends' Meeting House and Whielden Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE AND WHIELDEN COTTAGE, WHIELDEN STREET
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.
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:
- FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE AND WHIELDEN COTTAGE, WHIELDEN 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 95609 97044
Details
SU 9597 SE 7/192
5134
AMERSHAM,
WHIELDEN STREET (west side),
Friends' Meeting House and Whielden Cottage
22.12.58
II*
Original house at south end c.1600 extended to 1689 to form a Meeting Room for Friends, who has used the building from about 1660. Extended further north late C18, when the Meeting House was refronted in red brick. Cottage refronted early C19. Old tile roof, hipped at north end, C17 brick stack to cottage, gable on left with 2-light casement door with bracketted hood, 2-light casement on left with segmental arch. Meeting House has 2-fold 6 flush panel doors with delicate astragal mouldings, wooden architrave and flat gauged arch. Two sash windows each side, all with wood cills, segmental arches and panelled shutters with ornamental iron fasteners. Rear elevation has four gabled wings, three weatherboarded, the southern one brick.
Interior: Cottage has exposed beams of c.1600. Meeting House is divided into two rooms by a screen with counterweighted shutters. Main room has plain dado panelling, wall benches and a stand, open backed benches with shaped ends. Setting: a large open burial ground on the north and west. Important associations with Quaker history.
Listing NGR: SU9560997044
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 415799
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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