Description

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 HIGH STREET 859-1/6/268 (East side) Nos.144 AND 145

GV II

House in row, with shop. c1870s. Flemish bond brickwork, tile roof. Three storeys, 2+2-windowed; plain sashes to segmental heads with keystone, on deep stone cills with brackets. The ground floor has a bold shop front with deep recessed central glazed doors, set back behind the main fascia, which is carried on 2 slender cast-iron columns. To the left a boldly modelled panelled door under a transom-light with segmental head. The fascia with moulded cornice has a raised segmental pediment above the main doors, and heavy console brackets. A full-width band of interlaced decoration runs above the fascia, immediately below the first-floor cills. There are yellow brick flush cill and head bands at each level, and a modillion eaves with cornice, blocking course and coped parapet. There are brick stacks to left and right. INTERIOR not inspected. This is a late rebuild in the High Street, which has been kept in scale with adjacent properties, but expressed in a forthright late Victorian way, with a bold shop front design. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SO8930732740

External Links

• Wikidata Q26497005

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)