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TEWKESBURY

SO8932 HIGH STREET 859-1/6/258 (East side) 04/03/52 No.130 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (East side) No.130) (Formerly Listed as: WALLS COURT No.3)

GV II

Includes: No.3 WALLS COURT. House in row, with shop. Early C16 with C17 rear wing; refronted C18. Rendered front, timber-frame with plaster panels, tile roof, brick stacks. The property covers Walls Court, to the left, and continues in a long wing facing the Court (No.3, Walls Court), but also has fenestration on the far side, facing the adjoining No.131 (qv). 3-room right-angle plan with a rear attic room extending over property to rear. 3 storeys, 2-windowed. 9-pane over 12-pane sashes with stone cills, above a full-width late C19 shop front in 3 bays, incorporating the entrance to Walls Court. The display front has two 2-pane windows under very flat 4-centred heads, on moulded cills to a stall riser, and flanking a set-back part-glazed C19 door. The throughway opening is similarly detailed, and the whole has thin pilasters and a deep fascia with moulded cornice between raking consoles. The main front has a parapet with concrete coping. To the right is a lofty ridge stack. About 1.5m back from the street front in the throughway is a fine Tudor doorway with 4-centred head and carved spandrels to a very large moulded frame (left), but built-in to the partition, right. There are 3 further heavy chamfered beams to posts, and heavy framing to the left, with lesser framing to the right, with an early plank door. The framed wing has various replacement casements towards the court; in the gable is a small 2-light casement above a large 3-light, and one in the underbuild to a former jetty. On the far side, facing No.131, are 3 gabled dormers and various lights in good square-panel framing. INTERIOR: extensively altered mid C20. Details include a possible C16 arched-braced 3-bay roof to the front, obscured by boxing-in; on the second floor a C17 three-plank door in the left-hand wall has strap hinges; the ground floor has a side door with a fragment of C17 plaster ceiling above, and the basement has lateral beams and wide joists all with stopped chamfers and a large commercial bread oven. The rear attic room, reached by a C17 timber winder stair which has early C17 cockshead hinges to a cupboard beneath, has cambered collars, clasped purlins and tie beams on jowl posts. No.3 Walls Court listed 27.7.73.

Listing NGR: SO8932832814

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• Wikidata Q26482424

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings