Description

TEWKESBURY

SO83SE CHURCH STREET
859-1/2/111 (North side)
04/03/52 No.53
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET
(North side)
Nos.53 AND 54)

GV II

House at end of row, returning to Mill Street. Early C16.
Large-panel timber-framing, with diagonal tension bracing
plaster fill, underbuilt in brick, steeply pitched tile roof
brick stack. Parallel plan with first-floor room orginally
open to roof.
2 storeys and attic, 1-windowed. 2-light gabled dormer above
2-light casement, above 2-light shop front. Return to Mill
Street has 3-light casement above 9-pane, and, to right, C20
part-glazed door on one stone step. First floor jettied
slightly to both fronts; to right, shared with No.54 (qv), a
stack in C17 brickwork. Roof returns in hipped end.
INTERIOR: altered, details include a winder stair to the rear
behind the inserted brick stack, first-floor exposed square
framing, and attic with wind braces to the front and rear roof
pitches; roof not accessible.

Listing NGR: SO8899832514

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571708

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)