Description

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 HIGH STREET
859-1/6/193 (West side)
04/03/52 No.16

GV II

House in row. C16 and C17, early to mid C18 front.
Timber-framing, with Flemish bond brickwork front, roof not
visible behind parapet.
PLAN: a 2-room depth plan, with stack on the right party wall,
central staircase, and throughway to the left; C18 rear wing
makes L-plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2-windowed. 12-pane sashes in moulded
flush boxes, small brick-on-edge heads to second floor and
segmental heads to first floor, stone cills. Late C19
full-width shop front in pilasters with swept consoles to
fascia with moulded cornice above very deep C20 fascia over
plate glass and aluminium front. To the left is a low 4-panel
part-glazed C19 door to the throughway. Full-width moulded
cornice above second floor windows, deep blocking course and
coped parapet. The back of the main building is rendered, on
braced square-panel framing, and the throughway has framing
each side, with a C16 or early C17 deep-chamfered beam. A
further narrow gabled wing in brick with tile, and various
blocked openings.
INTERIOR: the ground floor has been much modified, and the
underlying structure is not visible, except in the throughway.
At the first floor, 2 transverse boxed beams, and a C16 deep
chamfered beam carried on a post on the S side. A good late
C17 or early C18 winder staircase with twisted balusters,
moulded handrail, and square newels. The top floor has a pair
of large jowelled posts, in the back wall a remnant of a
moulded beam, and a large plate or roof tie; the roof was not
accessible for inspection.

Listing NGR: SO8929332818

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501606

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