Description

SP 02 28 WINCHCOMBE ABBEY TERRACE
(south side)
4/9
School and Assembly
Rooms
-

GV II

School, later Working Men's Club, now Assembly Rooms and commercial premises.
Dated 1857. Limestone ashlar, stone slate roof, coped gables. Modest
Victorian Gothic, L-plan with cross wing containing assembly hall, gable
to street, left, then cross passage, with main wing parallel to street hav-
ing secondary gable near right-hand end; return set to steep slope of ine-
yard Street. Gable is one storey with 5-light stepped lancets with cusping
under continuous stepped string under oculus with mouchettes ; a plate glass
shop front has been cut across the bottom of the main window. Then 1½
storey section with 3 face gables containing 2-light ogee-cusped windows
under small oculus, and 3-light cusped below, between two arched entrances;
right is gable with 3-light window with stepped drip over wider section
weather-stepped outwards containing small 3-light window at pavement level.
On return gable 1:3:1 lancets with some cusping under oculus as main gable,
all over string stepped before quoins, and 3-light small window and door.
Although modified for commercial use, many original interior fittings remain.
In addition to its key role visually in Abbey Terrace, this is a building
of social significance to Winchcombe. A small faience tablet, left hand
end, records that the building treated 809 cases as a hospital between
16 May 1915 and 30 November 1918.

Listing NGR: SP0240428218

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26624448

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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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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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)