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Latitude: 51.6641 / 51°39'50"N
Longitude: -0.619 / 0°37'8"W
OS Eastings: 495609
OS Northings: 197044
OS Grid: SU956970
Mapcode National: GBR F68.LB3
Mapcode Global: VHFSH.7F3P
Plus Code: 9C3XM97J+J9
Entry Name: Friends' Meeting House and Whielden Cottage
Listing Date: 22 December 1958
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1274183
English Heritage Legacy ID: 415799
ID on this website: 101274183
Location: Amersham Old Town, Buckinghamshire, HP7
County: Buckinghamshire
Civil Parish: Amersham
Built-Up Area: Amersham
Traditional County: Buckinghamshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Buckinghamshire
Church of England Parish: Amersham with Coleshill
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Cottage
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
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