Description

1. AMERSHAM HIGH STREET
5134 (south side)

Nos 56, 58 and 60

SU 9597 SE 7/108 22.12.58

II* GV

2.
C16 altered C17. Now three houses. Timber framed, colourwashed plaster, old
tile roof, large red brick early C17 chimney stack to left with 4 octagonal
moulded shafts. 4 gabled dormers. Coved cornice. Two storeys and attic.
Flint rubble plinth. Carriageway on left hand (leading to "The Worthys" at rear).
Three doors and three 3-light diamond leaded casements to ground floor, three
similar windows to first floor and shallower 3-light casement above carriage
arch, to room actually part of No 54 (q.v.).
Interior: No 56 has wall paintings of c1600 in front-ground floor room depicting
the Nine Worthies.

(RCHM p8 MON 34)

Listing NGR: SU9556597367

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539832

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)