Description

1. AMERSHAM HIGH STREET
5134 (south side)

Nos 94 to 104 (even)
(Sir William Drake's
Almshouses)

SU 9597 SW 6/115 22.12.58

II*

2.
1657. Red brick, stone window and door dressings, old tile roof with moulded
brick cornice. Grouped round three sides of a garden court with brick wall on
fourth side. One storey, two and 3-light diamond leaded casements with stone
mullions and arched heads. Doorways with shallow arched heads. Central stone
coped gable with inscribed tablet on fluted consoles surmounted by open pediment
containing coat-of-arms in tymparium. Moulded brick floorband, three arched
openings. Side gables have dummy brick round-headed archways with impost bands
and keyblocks, surrounds of Roman Doric pilasters and entablature. A similar
archway in centre of part brick wall, leading to courtyard. Side and rear
elevations each have two large chimney stacks with tiled offsets and moulded
sailing courses. Gabled centre to rear elevation with three pointed arched
openings.

(RCHM I p 7 MON 29)

Listing NGR: SU9545597410

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539849

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Recommended Books

• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)