Description

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 HIGH STREET
859-1/6/208 (West side)
04/03/52 No.42
Green's
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(West side)
No.42
Anchor Hotel)

GV II

Inn. Early C19, ground floor late C19 or early C20. Painted
brick, slate roofs, brick stacks. A wide but shallow front
block with a return wing to Quay Street, and a second wing at
the left hand end.
3 storeys and basement, 4-windowed. Broad 16-pane sashes to
brick voussoirs, and keystones, decorated with urns at first
floor and floral swags at second floor. The ground floor is
rendered, and with rusticated joints under a frieze with
dentilled cornice. 2 wide lights have 4 small panes above the
transom in segmental heads with voussoirs and keystone. The
central door has side lights, with a transom-light to a
similar segmental head, all in a pilaster case and open
pediment. Basement grille to the left. Small plinth returned
to the left, and small modillion cornice is stopped to the
front, with blocking course and coped parapet. 2 large brick
stacks at rear eaves.
The return to Quay Street has a narrow section to a haunched
parapet, with one 12-pane sash at first floor, right, with
keystone. Then, to left, and lower, a 3-storey wing with 2
horizontal 12-pane sashes above 16-pane. The ground floor is
detailed as the front, but with a central 4-panel door to
radial fanlight and arch in pilaster doorcase with open
pediment. This flanked each side by plain lights with 2 lights
above a transom, and in segmental heads with small keystone.
The frieze and cornice is also carried round.
The back of the main block has a wide central gable above a
wide segmental-headed opening. To the left is the
mansard-roofed wing. A small lead-covered octagonal light is
set at the junction between these two blocks. INTERIOR not
inspected.
This building, formerly the Anchor Hotel, holds an important
corner site in the High Street, and the front block has been
given high ceilings to create an imposing presence.

Listing NGR: SO8934332991

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501825

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)