Description

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SU 9993
4/35

CHALFONT ST GILES
HIGH STREET (north-west side)
Reading Room

(Formerly listed as Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths)

GV
II

Cl7 timber-framed building of three bays, altered in late C19 to form a Reading Room from earlier conversion to an Infants School. Timber-framed gables with brick infill. Other elevations brick. Old tile roof. Street front with three gables and projecting gables porch. False framing in gables. Window to centre gable and three-light casements flank porch. Painted brick. Roof trusses exposed internally. War memorial attached to west bay front.

Listing NGR: SU9902193481

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 11 January 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26418015

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)