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Watermeadow, CHESHAM, HP5 1JA

A grade II listed building, around 1600.

View across Church Street from the steps of the parish hall. The archway leads to Old Bells Court, which may well be a vestige of the medieval plan of Chesham. The street frontage is interesting in itself - no. 44 has an old shop-front, said to be of early 19th century origin. But what this shot doesn't show is that the walls running back from the street on either side of the entrance have exposed timber framing, showing that the street frontage has been added to timber-framed buildings which are centuries older. Listing text: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-43509-44-church-street-chesham-buckinghamshire

Many of the smaller properties along Church Street appear to be brick-built, but are in fact timber-framed. The Buckinghamshire 'Pevsner' and the listing texts agree that brick facing was added - from about 1700 onwards - to timber-framed cottages which were already a century or two old. Here, a carriage archway gives access to Old Bells Court. The buildings on either side appear to be brick-built, but their timber framing is exposed within the archway. A wider view of this portion of Church Street can be found here: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3382916 No. 44 appears to be a private residence, but incorporates an old shop-front, possibly pre-Victorian.

This shop-front - in style, at least - would seem to date from the early 19th century. Early shop-fronts are something of a rarity, and it seems to me that the ones which have survived are worth recording here on Geograph. No. 44 is a timber-framed building, which the listing text dates to the 17th century: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-43509-44-church-street-chesham-buckinghamshire

Built in 1852 in Church Street, the Hall is now used as a theatre, The Little Theatre by the Park http://www.littletheatrechesham.info/About%20The%20Little%20Theatre.htm for details