16, High Street

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 HIGH STREET 859-1/6/193 (West side) 04/03/52 No.16

GV II

House in row. C16 and C17, early to mid C18 front. Timber-framing, with Flemish bond brickwork front, roof not visible behind parapet. PLAN: a 2-room depth plan, with stack on the right party wall, central staircase, and throughway to the left; C18 rear wing makes L-plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2-windowed. 12-pane sashes in moulded flush boxes, small brick-on-edge heads to second floor and segmental heads to first floor, stone cills. Late C19 full-width shop front in pilasters with swept consoles to fascia with moulded cornice above very deep C20 fascia over plate glass and aluminium front. To the left is a low 4-panel part-glazed C19 door to the throughway. Full-width moulded cornice above second floor windows, deep blocking course and coped parapet. The back of the main building is rendered, on braced square-panel framing, and the throughway has framing each side, with a C16 or early C17 deep-chamfered beam. A further narrow gabled wing in brick with tile, and various blocked openings. INTERIOR: the ground floor has been much modified, and the underlying structure is not visible, except in the throughway. At the first floor, 2 transverse boxed beams, and a C16 deep chamfered beam carried on a post on the S side. A good late C17 or early C18 winder staircase with twisted balusters, moulded handrail, and square newels. The top floor has a pair of large jowelled posts, in the back wall a remnant of a moulded beam, and a large plate or roof tie; the roof was not accessible for inspection.

Listing NGR: SO8929332818