Description

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 HIGH STREET
859-1/6/200 (West side)
04/03/52 No.25

GV II

House in row. Mid C18, but incorporating some earlier fabric.
Flemish bond brickwork, tile roof. Deep plan: hipped-roofed
front block with side-entry to Wilkes Alley, to the left;
broad wing at the back with hipped roof and parapet.
3 storeys and basement, 2-windowed. 16-pane sashes to brick
voussoirs, stooled stone cills. The rendered ground floor has
2 square plate-glass display windows with a central glazed
door, and a plain full-width fascia. To the left is a plain
arched opening to the throughway, Wilkes Alley. The back wall
is rendered, with central 4-pane sashes to segmental heads, a
small stair light to the right at ground floor, and a coped
parapet. The inner wall to the alley is in light box-framing
with brick nogging, and beyond the covered part there are 2
early 2-light casements, which have been painted over and
sealed.
INTERIOR: inspected only in part. The ground floor has 2
close-set longitudinal beams carried on a low transverse
lintel beam approx 3.5m from the shop front. The cellar,
approached by a winder stair with timber-faced brick treads,
has a very heavy transverse propped beam, on a brick floor. In
one corner is a splayed hearth support in brick.

Listing NGR: SO8930832875

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571687

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