Description

TEWKESBURY

SO8933 HIGH STREET
859-1/5/224 (West side)
04/03/52 No.63
Avonside

GV II*

Large house in row. Mid C18. Flemish bond brickwork, tile
roof, brick stacks. A very substantial double-depth plan
Georgian house. 3 storeys and basement, 5-windowed. 9-pane
sashes at second floor, and 12-pane at first and ground
floors, all to brick voussoirs and decorative keystones with
cornice, stone cills, A wide central panelled door is set to
fluted Doric quarter-columns, under a frieze and decorative
fanlight. The plinth, containing air bricks for the basement,
rises to the cills of the ground-floor windows. There is a
plain band above the ground-floor keystones, and a moulded
parapet coping. The plain return wall to the right has a large
external brick stack near the back.
The back, which may have been added a little later, is
4-windowed, with 4-pane sashes to the second floor, and 2
plate glass with two 12-pane sashes at ground and first
floors, all to brick voussoirs without keystones. To the left,
at first floor, is an early C19 two-bay balcony on 6 cast-iron
brackets, and with decorative wrought-iron balustrade. Central
panelled door under arch with plain fanlight, similar to that
in No.62 (qv).
INTERIOR: the entrance lobby, on Minton tile floor gives
through a wide elliptical arch, with C20 glazed doors, to the
stair hall with fielded panelling. To the right of the entry a
room is completely lined with large fielded panels, in
stripped pine, with a dado rail, and fireplace with reeded
surround. The windows have inner shutters or panelling to
unusually shallow reveals for a house of this period. There
are fine moulded and eared architraves to panelled doors
throughout.
The grand open-well stair rises through both storeys to a
plain glass or plastic dome-light, replacing the C18 light.
The stair has an open string with scrolled ends to the treads,
newels with drops, turned balusters, and a swept and wreathed
mahogany handrail. A first-floor back room has 2 transverse
beams and a reeded cornice and beam mouldings, with a C19
fireplace.
This is one of the most grand of the rebuilt houses in the
High Street, retaining most of its original external
characteristics, and substantial unchanged interiors.

Listing NGR: SO8939033121

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17538890

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)