Description

SO8932
859-1/6/145

TEWKESBURY,
CHURCH STREET (North side),
Nos. 91 AND 92

04/03/52

GV II*

Pair of houses at end of row. Early C17, the rear wing dated
1564 in owner's deeds; the front block probably early C17.
Square-panelled timber-framing, close-studded with mid rails
to front; brick stacks, tile roofs.
PLAN: 2-bay 2-room width right-angle plan with left-hand rear
jettied wing. Long narrow gable-to-street properties with
double jetty to Church Street. Entrance to No.91 is from St
Mary's Lane, left.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and basement, 1+1- windowed; each
gable has small 2-light mullioned casement. At first and
second floor are 3-light C18 or early C19 casements with
horizontal glazing bars, all these set in close-studded
framing with middle rails, and with 3 moulded brackets to
upper jetty.
At ground floor No.91 has C19 18-pane shop front with
part-glazed door to left in pilasters and with consoles. No.92
has C19 nine-pane shop fronts flanking glazed central door,
under fascia with cornice on carved brackets.
The return, left, to St Mary's Lane, is in small
square-panel framing with 2 rails at first floor, and one at
second. Ground floor in rendered brick underbuild to jetty.
Second floor has 2 single-light C18 or C19 casements towards
the left, and a single-pane light far left to first floor. At
ground floor are 2 tripartite windows with slight Gothick
heads to 3:9:3-pane lights. To the left, beyond the main
structure and in the fabric of No.2 St Mary's Lane (qv) a
C20 door. At the rear gable to No.91 is a large square
external stack.
INTERIOR details of No.91 include square-framed side walls and
lateral floor beams with wide chamfers and ogee stops, with a
rear right-hand winder stair; a 3-bay attic with re-used
timbers, 2 widely-spaced collar trusses linked by ridge
pieces, with paired common rafters to the end bays, and a Y
brace over the collar to the front gable truss; the rear gable
incorporates parts of an earlier collar truss and tie beam
with joist mortices set on the first floor to the right of the
stack.

Listing NGR: SO8919232615

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539127

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