Description

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 HIGH STREET 859-1/6/263 (East side) 04/03/52 No.137

GV II*

House in row, with shop. Early C18 front on C15 fabric; C17 joinery; altered and reroofed in mid C19. Flemish bond brickwork, square panel timber-framing to rear, tile roof, brick stacks. PLAN: 2-room right-angle plan with narrower rear 2-bay C15 range. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2-windowed. Plain sashes with brick voussoirs and central decorative keystones with cornice, stone cills. C19 pilaster shop front with central recessed door under a deep fascia with moulded cornice and scrolled ends. Stone modillion cornice, rebuilt blocking course with concrete coping, returned at the ends. The party wall to the alley to the left (under No.136 (qv)) is in square panel framing, on a heavy plate and stone plinth course. This wall contains 2 doorways, one blocked, and one in a moulded architrave. The back of the main range has a wide gable, with some framing and C20 brickwork, and a decayed 16-pane sash, then a 2-storey wing in heavy square framing, with a gable stack, and a further framed wing in 2 storeys with attic and tiled roof. INTERIOR: details of the rear wing include a chamfered arch-braced truss with moulded centre, corner jowl posts and wind-braces, ceiled above the collar; the front range has a right-hand stair from the ground floor, first-floor has C17 scratch-moulded 9-panel cupboard with inscribed lozenges and flowers to the panels beneath a roll-moulded cornice in the rear room, C17 panelled door to an attic winder stair; the ground-floor rear room contains more C17 cupboard doors, and a good carved Jacobean overmantel with terms.

Listing NGR: SO8930732780

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)