Description

TEWKESBURY

SO8933 HIGH STREET
859-1/5/218 (West side)
04/03/52 Nos.54 AND 55
The Brothers Public House (55)
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(West side)
Nos.54 AND 55
George Hotel)

GV II

Pair of houses at end of row, with public house (No.55). Early
C19. L-plan: shallow-depth front range with mansard slope to
the front, central projecting stair turret and 2 narrow gabled
wings to the rear. Flemish bond brickwork, painted to 55, tile
roof, brick stacks.
3 storeys, attic and basement, 2+2-windowed. Broad 16-pane
sashes to wide-splayed brick voussoirs and fluted keystones
with cornice, stone cills. Plat band above ground-floor
windows. No.54 has central 5-panel door in pilaster doorcase
to a flat entablature and deep panelled reveals. No.55, 'The
Brothers', has a late C19 rebuilt ground floor, with broad
2-light recessed and splayed bay with rectangular leaded
lights, under a 4-centred head. To the left is a 6-panel door
with a 2-pane transom-light to a 4-centred head. Small plinth,
pavement cellar access to 55. Coped parapet, one small dormer
to the right of 54, and coped verge to left gable. Cropped
brick stack to the right gable. The return left, to Red Lane,
is in plain brickwork, but with a former opening to the ground
floor, left, now blocked, and a single light to the attic. The
rear roof slope is in one plane (not mansard form), and there
is a hipped stair projection behind 54 and a deep paired-gable
wing to 55.
INTERIOR not inspected. This was formerly the George Hotel.

Listing NGR: SO8937933073

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26482891

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)