Description

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 HIGH STREET
859-1/6/182 (West side)
04/03/52 No.2

GV II*

House in row. Early C18. Flemish bond brickwork, tile and felt
roofs. The front block is linked to a square 4-storey block by
an inset unit, all of this of the C18. Beyond is a later brick
addition linked via a late C20 glazed passageway.
Front is 3 storeys, 3-windowed. wide 9-pane sashes at second
floor and 12-pane at first floor each side, but second-floor
centre has a blind oculus with keystones at the cardinal
points, and first floor an arched sash with early C19
interlaced head. All windows are set to the wall face under
rubbed brick voussoirs, and with central fluted keystones with
cornice, and stone cills. The ground floor has symmetrical
4-pane C19 shop front in pilasters and fascia with moulded
cornice between bold consoles. Central recessed glazed door
under a square transom-light. Inside the glass at the set-back
are 2 slender quatrefoil-plan cast-iron columns. Above a stone
modillion cornice is a rendered parapet with a segmental
raised centre.
The back of this main building has a coped parapet over small
early C18 12-pane sashes and a C20 light to segmental heads; a
slated lean-to addition at the ground floor.
A 4-storey rear block in brick has a felted flat roof and is
in 2 bays, with 12-pane sashes at second and third floors
above a fine Palladian window with Gibbsian arch, pilasters,
and open moulded pediment over 3:12:3-paned sashes. The lowest
floor has a wide 4-pane C20 light. Flank walls are rendered,
and an external steel stair gives access to the link block,
with flat felted roof and rendered wall. At the eaves level is
a tripartite 12-pane sash with wide mullion boxes (but the
first sash modified), above a paired sash, the same, linked
with a flush door under a moulded cornice. Below this is C20
infill. INTERIOR not inspected.
A 1900 photograph in the Museum shows the parapet with 3 large
urns, and with a saddle-back coping.

Listing NGR: SO8926532720

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539315

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings