156, High Street

No. 156 High Street is a house with a shop located at the junction of two main streets in Tewkesbury. The building features an early 19th-century facade, while some interior details date back to the 18th century. It is constructed of Flemish bond brickwork and has a slate roof with brick stacks. The tall structure has a splayed corner and a parapet that is cropped close to the third-floor window heads. It connects the last building on High Street with the first on Barton Street. The building has four storeys and a symmetrical facade with three windows on each level. The third floor has a 12-pane horizontal sash window, while the first and second floors have 16-pane sash windows, all featuring brick voussoirs and a central fluted keystone with a cornice. The shop front, added in the 20th century, has plate glass on each side with deep-set doors on the splayed front. A large stone panel inscribed 'Frisby's' has replaced the central first-floor window.

Inside, which connects with No. 1 Barton Street, the interior is quite simple, retaining remnants of contemporary stick-baluster staircases and two blocked fireplaces, one of which has an eared architrave. This building is an important part of the townscape at the junction of the three main streets known as The Cross. The top courses of the walling, just below the parapet, have been rebuilt. A photograph from 1960 in the National Monuments Record shows that the first-floor splay originally had a glazing-bar sash window where the inscribed panel is now located.