Description

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 CHURCH STREET
859-1/6/150 (North side)
04/03/52 No.99

GV II

House at end of row, with shop, formerly a bank. Early C19.
Flemish bond brickwork, rendered at front, tile roof, brick
stacks.
Deep plan 3 storeys, 2-windowed. 12-pane above 4-pane sashes
to Gibbsian surrounds and stone cills on brackets. Ground
floor has C19 shop front with pilaster surround and heavy
bracketed fascia; this conceals a former 3-arched front in
rusticated walling, of which one arch now remains to the right
containing panelled doors under a transom-light and blank
tympanum. Above this is a string course with bold raised
lettering 'BANK'; this is centred - there may have been other
lettering here. Plinth, rusticated alternating quoins,
modillion cornice, blocking course and coped parapet. Paired
parallel roofs, large brick stack to left gable wall which has
various blocked openings.
A lower wing has a blocked carriage opening with tumbled brick
voussoirs. The back includes a large sash window at first
floor.
INTERIOR: the main stair, at the rear of the lobby to the
right, is a good early C19 straight flight returned to a
landing, with stick balusters and swept handrail. Various
original panelled doors, and elliptical or round arches over
passages and entrances.

Listing NGR: SO8923532657

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496965

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)