155, High Street

This is a late 15th or early 16th century house in a row, one of a pair with number 154 on the High Street in Tewkesbury. It was originally built as a shop with living accommodation above. The building is timber-framed with plaster panel or brick infill, and the front has close-studded timbering with tension bracing. The plan is parallel and includes a single room at each level. A shared brick ridge stack is situated centrally between numbers 154 and 155.

The three-storey, attic and basement property is two windows wide. A hipped dormer with a two-light leaded casement and moulded eaves sits above two early leaded casements with transoms at the first and second floors. A 20th-century shop front is situated beneath a moulded bressumer with replaced spandrel brackets. The back wall is timber-framed with brick nogging and contains two small leaded casements. The jetty joists of the second floor are exposed beneath a moulded bressumer, and there is a deep moulded eaves board. The first floor incorporates painted brickwork with some framing members painted onto the surface.

The interior retains much original fabric. The ground floor is lined full height with glazed tiles, including a decorative blue tile dado featuring various birds. A 19th-century cast-iron spiral stair is located in the rear corner, leading to the first floor. A transverse chamfered beam and a small light are also present. The basement features a ceiling of stone slabs on cast-iron angles or tees, a concrete floor, and a section of barrel vaulting beneath the pavement. The first-floor room is lined with 18th-century fielded panelling, partially concealed by a built-in cold room. Two four-panel fielded doors are present, along with a cupboard door with a splat-baluster ventilator above the chimney breast. Evidence suggests that Jacobean carved work was removed from the fireplace. The upper floors are accessed by an 18th-century open-well staircase with a solid string, square newels, a moulded handrail, and flat stick balusters, fitted into the acute angle of the rear corner. The second-floor room, originally open to the roof, has exposed framed and braced walls and an 18th-century fire surround with a moulded mantel shelf. Windows contain early glass, including a scratched inscription reading 'Mary Logos 1738'. The attic has wind-bracing to both slopes and a small dormer at the back. This is a fine late medieval property which retains much fabric and finishing of historic interest.