Description

TEWKESBURY

SO8933 HIGH STREET
859-1/5/220 (West side)
04/03/52 Nos.58 AND 59
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(West side)
Nos.56-59 (Consecutive))

GV II

House in row. Late C15 or C16. Timber-framing, rendered street
front, tile roof. 2-bay side-entry parallel-plan front range,
comprising the end house of a formerly jettied terrace row
including Nos 56 and 57 (qqv) low gabled rear wing. There is a
throughway, Mann's Court, to the left.
2 storeys, 2-windowed. 3-light casements to first floor. The
ground floor has 2 bowed multi-pane shop fronts, that to the
right probably early C19 and with panelled pilasters to scroll
consoles; there are 2 glazed doors. No.stack is visible. The
throughway, on stone paving, and with 2 transverse beams, has
heavy braced framing which contains 2 contiguous 2-panel
fielded doors, one, smaller than the other, is in a moulded
architrave. The wing to the back of 59 has a heavy framed
gable with brick nogging. The INTERIORS not inspected, but
likely to be similar to those in 56 and 57 (qqv). Nos 56-59
appear to be of a common building date. They have retained
their fronts of modest scale, with low ceiling pitches, and a
full-width eaves to a long roof pitch, characteristic of late
medieval town houses.

Listing NGR: SO8938033094

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571690

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  For the Record
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)