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Elmhurst (also known as Elmtrees) is a semi-detached house at 5 High Street in 
The house is 2 storeys in height, made from red and grey brick and has a distinctive 19th century covered entrance with a semi circular iron roof and a traceried fanlight over the door.
The present house was erected by the Dormer family and was inhabited for several years by the widow of
Great Missenden
Great Missenden is an affluent village with approximately 2,000 residents in the Misbourne Valley in the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England, situated between the towns of Amersham and Wendover, with direct rail connections to London Mar ...
, Buckinghamshire. It is divided into seven apartments. It predominantly dates from the 18th century and surrounds a 16th-century house.
The main wing has been listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England
The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England's official database of protected heritage assets. It includes details of all English listed buildings, scheduled monuments, register of historic parks and gardens, protected shipwrecks, a ...
since August 1977. The north wing, known as Gable End, was separately listed Grade II in July 1984.
The house is 2 storeys in height, made from red and grey brick and has a distinctive 19th century covered entrance with a semi circular iron roof and a traceried fanlight over the door.
The present house was erected by the Dormer family and was inhabited for several years by the widow of William Cleaver
William Cleaver (1742–1815) was an English churchman and academic, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, and bishop of three sees.
Life
He was the eldest son of the Rev. William Cleaver, who wa ...
, the Bishop of Chester
The Bishop of Chester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chester in the Province of York.
The diocese extends across most of the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, including the Wirral Peninsula and has its see in the ...
. It was subsequently the residence of Frances, the wife of the 19th century radical MP Robert Knight. A September 1840 letter from farmer John Burgess was sent from Elmhurst to the ''Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England''. An 1870 letter from Gilbert William Child was sent from Elmhurst to Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended ...
.
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