Number 77 Including Gate Piers

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 CHURCH STREET 859-1/6/134 (North side) 04/03/52 No.77 including gate piers

GV II*

House at end of row, now doctors' surgery. Early C18. Flemish bond brickwork with stone dressings; tile roof, brick stacks. PLAN: A compact square central entry block to hipped roof with entrance from courtyard to stair hall flanked by single room each side (now partitioned). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and basement, 3-windowed to Church Street. 16-pane sash to flat-roofed dormer offset to right above 12-pane sashes in face boxes to brick voussoirs and stone key under plain rendered band and on stone cills. 2 basement grilles. Plinth, alternating V-joint stone quoins, moulded modillion eaves cornice. Return to left, in courtyard, is principal front, with 3 gabled dormers with 2-light casements; central bay defined by quoined pilasters; central tripartite light in haunched voussoirs with keystone above 12-pane sash and fielded panel door, part glazed, to fanlight with moulded pediment hood on brackets. Ground-floor left has large 16-pane sash to stone lintel and cill, otherwise series of blank recessed panels to segmental heads and keystones, plain mid band. Large brick stack to valley, right, and rear left. Back in painted brick, with large 16-pane sash to first floor, right, and C20 lean-to extension. INTERIOR: entrance hall with fielded panelling and dogleg stair with turned balusters, square newels, solid string, and heavy moulded handrail. Front room, formerly full width, now (1991) with inserted partition, also fielded panelling. Diagonally across outer corner adjacent to entrance hall is full-height panel, framed in fluted Doric pilasters with triglyph frieze, and in the other half of the room a C18 niche cupboard. Doors generally 6-panel fielded in moulded architraves and to panelled reveals at both floors. Octagonal roof-light over stair. At first floor, back, a kitchen with corner fireplace, and small C18 fielded-panel doors. Attic level not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: to left of street front a pair of square brick gate piers to moulded stone caps on brick plinth, pair of plank gates and lower single pedestrian opening with brick nib walls and coping, on single sandstone step with nosing. A fine early C18 town house. The unusual right-angle plan, with a courtyard to one side providing access, is also a feature of the late C17 merchant's houses at Topsham in Devon.

Listing NGR: SO8913532573