The Griffin Hotel
THE GRIFFIN HOTEL, 12, BROADWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332496
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Griffin Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE GRIFFIN HOTEL, 12, BROADWAY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332496
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Griffin Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GRIFFIN HOTEL, 12, BROADWAY
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:
- THE GRIFFIN HOTEL, 12, BROADWAY
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 95870 97270
Details
1. AMERSHAM BROADWAY 5134 (south side)
No 12 (The Griffin Hotel)
SU 9597 SE 7/11 22.12.58
II GV
2. Early C18 front to earlier building. Chequer pattern brick, old tile roof, brick chimney stack each end, wood modillion cornice, three hipped dormers with 2-light casements. Three storeys and attic, moulded first floor band. Five double hung sash windows in flush wood cases with architrave moulding. Ground floor has central carriage arch with modern canopy and old gates; on left two windows with cambered arches with moulded brick cornices over. Two storey wing to east continues into No 14 (q.v.). C18, red brick, old tile roof. Two storeys, plinth and first floor band. Half glazed door on left with hood on shaped brackets, sash window on left with cambered brick arch, two sash windows to first floor. Rear elevation of main building: 3 gables, painted rendering, 3-light leaded window to second floor centre, which projects above first floor with a coved section, continued into the cornices of the flanking 2-storey wings. 3-light Yorkshire casement to first floor cornice. Flanking wings of brick, hipped tiled roofs. Sash windows to end elevations, blank recesses to inner faces, one sash window below to eastern wing, which is linked to a further wing of earlier date, timber framed with brick infill, and some weatherboarding, old tile roof. Two light Yorkshire casements to east elevation, modern garage doors. Interior: good-Cl7 timbers exposed.
(RCHM I p 56 MON 56)
Listing NGR: SU9586197277
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 44724
- 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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