Description

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 HIGH STREET
859-1/6/181 (West side)
04/03/52 No.1

GV II*

House at end of street row. Early C18. Flemish bond brickwork,
tile roof. A lofty narrow-frontage house with fine brick
front; the body of the building is at an angle, following the
burgage plot line, and returns to Tolzey Lane.
3 storeys, 3 close-set windows. 12-pane sashes, in central bay
to segmental heads, and all to rubbed brick voussoirs with
decorative keystone with cornice, on moulded stone cills.
Ground floor has full-width C20 shop front. Above the stone
modillion cornice is a large blind lunette in a moulded
architrave, in a shaped parapet with moulded stone coping. The
double roof, to a central valley, has hipped ends. Above the
ground floor, centrally, is a clock cantilevered on an ornate
wrought-iron bracket, presented by the Mayor, MC Smart, in
1883.
The moulded parapet returns left for approx 4m over a plain
brick wall, with one large 4-pane casement at the ground
floor. Beyond this is a slightly curved section in 3 storeys
to eaves, with two 12-pane sashes at second floor, and at
first floor one sash plus 2 smaller lights to the left.
Ground floor has a larger 12-pane sash to segmental head, a
small square opening above a blocked doorway, and a C20 door
under a large margin-pane transom-light and two C20 lights.
The back is in 3 storeys, 2-windowed: all 12-pane sashes to
voussoirs with fluted keystones and stone cills; at the ground
floor is a wide opening to segmental head over plank door.
INTERIOR not inspected.
A 1900 photograph in the Museum shows an oculus with glazing
bars and 3 urns to the parapet.

Listing NGR: SO8926632710

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17538648

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