Description

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 HIGH STREET 859-1/6/194 (West side) 04/03/52 No.17

GV II

House in row. Early C19 front to C17 framed fabric. Flemish bond brickwork, felted roof. Side-entry right-angle plan. 3 storeys, wide-spaced 2-windowed. Large 16-pane sashes to fine brick voussoirs with fluted keystone with cornice, stone cills. Ground floor has late C19 shop front with pilasters, in 2 large panes, with slender unmoulded mullions to flat basket-handle heads. Recessed to the left is a glazed door under a transom-light with rounded corners. Then left, to throughway, a wide framed door, with 4 sunk panels above a fifth with cross-bracing, under a shallow 4-pane transom-light. A shallow fascia beneath moulded cornice is surmounted by a decorative cast-iron cresting, all the full width of the front. The stone modillion cornice is immediately beneath a felt drip to the roof. The right-hand flank of the building is rendered and decorated as part of the Town Hall design (qv). In the throughway there is timber-framing to the right, and, approx 2m from the front, a broad chamfered and stopped beam on a bracket. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8929432825

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