Description

TEWKESBURY

SO83SE MILL BANK
859-1/2/284 (South East side)
04/03/52 Nos.1 AND 2

GV II*

House in row, formerly two or three. Late C15 or early C16.
Heavy tension-braced large-panel timber-framing, painted brick
nogging; tile roof and brick stack. A long jettied front to
parallel-plan range with steep-pitched roof; small lower brick
wing to centre, back.
2 storeys and attic, 3-windowed. 2 wide-spaced small gabled
2-light dormers above 2:3:2-light late C18 or C19 casements
with horizontal bars at first floor. At ground floor are three
2-light casements with transoms. Far left is a plank door, and
near right end another, under a 4-centre-headed arched
overlight; the head cut from a single timber member. The 2
doors are on 2 very high sandstone steps. The main framework
rises from heavy cill on small stone plinth course, and at the
right hand end, adjoining No.15, Mill Street (qv), is a dragon
beam, suggesting a further jetty on the return in the original
building. Brackets help to carry the jetty, which has a
moulded bressumer. A large stack in C17 brickwork runs
laterally central to the ridge. At the back is one gabled
dormer with replacement window, and various lights in further
timber-framing. The wing has a gable stack.
INTERIOR not inspected. This is the best retained of this
important row of early timber-framed cottages, at a visually
important street corner opposite Abbey Mill (qv), and set back
behind the raised pavement (qv), to minimise flooding risk.

Listing NGR: SO8894632556

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17538932

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)