16, Barton Street

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 BARTON STREET 859-1/6/19 (North side) 04/03/52 No.16

GV II

House in row, with shop. Mid or late C16 remodelling of earlier structure. Rendered timber-frame, tile roof, brick stack. A small-scale twin-gabled property with 2 jettied storeys, the front range being parallel to street. 2 storeys with attic, 2-windowed. To each gable a small vertical light, and at first floor 2-light casements with a horizontal bar. The ground floor has a 2+3-light C19 display window on a high stall-riser, and, to the left, an C18 door with inserted decorative cast-iron grille in the upper half. The ground floor has been underbuilt to the jetty, and the first floor has a moulded casing to the bressumer. The gables, which run back to the main transverse roof, have C19 scalloped barge-boards with finials. There is a lofty brick ridge stack to the right. C18 work to rear includes casements with thick glazing bars. INTERIOR: ground floor, which has a very low ceiling, has various beams. Inside the shop front are 2 cast-iron quatrefoil-section columns below the main bressumer. C16 two-bay queen-post roof with clasped purlins; moulded tie beam and other elements of timber frame (largely obscured) are indicative of earlier origins, probably surviving from a C15 hall house from which No.17 (qv) has survived as the former solar wing.

Listing NGR: SO8936632709