Description

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 CHURCH STREET
859-1/6/131 (North side)
27/07/73 No.73

GV II

House in row, with restaurant. Probably early/mid C16, heavily
restored C20 front. Timber-frame with arch bracing brickwork,
tile roofs, brick stack. Twin gables to front street range,
with long back wing, entry from alley to right, under house.
2 storeys and basement, 2-windowed. All 3-light C20 casements,
central C20 door to restaurant, principal entry to house from
alley. Large stack to left, raised in C20. Long back wing,
brick ground floor and box framed above, includes one gabled
dormer, and entry to kitchen.
INTERIOR retains much timber-framing, exposed at ground floor,
including heavy framed and braced party walls, and broad early
joists on transverse beam; at the front, set back from the
underbuilt frontage, is a beam with wave mould, propped at the
centre with a moulded member probably from elsewhere in the
structure.
In the back room there are chamfered and stopped ceiling
joists, spanning approx 3m to heavy chamfered transverse
beams. Lobby to right, centre has C18 part-glazed interior
door, and C18 door to alley. Fireplace, to left, restructured.
Thin C17 plank door gives to basement, with some brick vaulted
sections. Winder stair by fireplace rises through both
storeys, and the roof has heavy framed members including
cambered ties.

Listing NGR: SO8910332567

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496959

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)