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Pheasant Rise, CHESHAM, HP5 1NT

Housing on the eastern side of the town with a view over the Chess valley.

There's obviously some big problem with this property for it to be left in such a state. At a guess it's at a severe flood risk, but that's just a theory.

This Grade II Listed Building, on Moor Road, and with a significant connection with Chesham's industrial past, is currently in this state. Lord's Mill itself was a corn mill on the River Chess, constructed in 1660, and was at one time Chesham's oldest secular building. It ceased working in the 1950s, and after a period of neglect and decay, had to be demolished in the 1980s. It stood abutting this house on its right hand side in this image. The Historic England website describes the house thus:- "Late C16 or early C17, altered. Whitewashed brick ground floor, tile hung 1st floor, old tiled roof. 2 storeys, 2 C19 casement windows to ground floor, 2 gabled casement dormers to 1st floor either side of central gable with casement. Central doorway with ribbed wooden surround under open pediment on consoles. Large central red brick chimneystack with square plan shafts." The book "Chesham through Time" states that "the mill house was carefully restored in 1982".

This fine individual example is beside the River Chess.

This board is one of ten on Chesham Moor with photographs by Matt Writtle. It has the following wording: THE RIVER MEADOW AT THE PILE OF STONES. THE CHESS VALLEY As the River Chess bids farewell to Chesham, it flows through the picturesque Chess Valley towards the site of a Roman Villa now known as Latimer Park. As well as a hotel, fisheries, charities and small businesses, the land is farmed for wheat and barley and livestock. Once the sheep have weaned their lambs, they spend three months, from August to October, grazing on the river meadow next to the Chess, gorging on the rich variety of grasses and wildflower. This restores the sheep's health and condition more speedily than traditional pastures, in preparation for the mating season in November. At the same time the sheep tread the seeds from the flowering plants into the earth to help the germination process, whose benefits are reaped the following spring by pollinating insects, birds, mammals and the wider ecology.