Description

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SO8932
859-1/6/11

TEWKESBURY
BARTON STREET (North side)
No.6

04/03/52

GV
II

House in row, with shop. Late C17 with early C19 front. Rendered, tile roof. One-room parallel plan with one-room right-range behind with a full-width central stair well between.

Three storeys, attic and basement, two-windowed. A small two-light dormer behind the high parapet, then two 16-pane sashes at second floor. First floor has a large 25-pane sash, above a ground floor plate-glass shop front, with recessed door to the left. Far left, set back, is a wide four-panel door under a transom-light, to a throughway. The shop fascia runs full width. Basement grille in stall riser, right. Above the first floor is a full-width plat band. No stacks visible from the street.

INTERIOR: details include an altered ground floor; first-floor front room has early C18 cornice with a fragment of fielded panelling by the doorway, and a dogleg stair with turned balusters and ball finials to the newels; the second floor has a bolection-moulded fire surround to the rear room facing the front of the house, with a boarded-over overmantel, section of cornice above, and a small cupboard to the side wall with butterfly hinges; scratch-moulded door to the stair flight to the attic, the front room of which has a collar truss roof with butt purlins, including a heavy left-hand truss against the gable, and a blocked right-hand window, and a rear gable window with a decorative late C17 wrought-iron hinge to leaded lattice casement; a stair light well lit by the central left-hand dormer extends down to the first floor.

Listing NGR: SO8931932699

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26500163

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)