155, High Street

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 HIGH STREET 859-1/6/277 (East side) 04/03/52 No.155 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (East side) Nos.154 AND 155)

GV II*

House in row, one of a pair, with shop. Late C15 or early C16. Timber-frame with plaster panel or brick infill; close-studded front with tension bracing. PLAN: Parallel plan, built as pair with No.154 (qv) and with shared central shared stack. A small single-depth property, on a constricted site, double jettied, with one room at each level, fireplace on the party wall, and staircase in outer rear corner. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and basement, 2-windowed. An early hipped dormer with 2-light leaded casement, and with moulded eaves, above two 2-light early leaded casements with transom at first and second floors. A C20 shop front lies behind a moulded bressumer with replaced spandrel brackets. The back wall is partly concealed, but is in heavy framing with brick nogging, and contains 2 very small leaded casements. The second floor jetty joists are exposed, below a moulded bressumer, and there is a deep moulded eaves board. The first floor is partly in painted brickwork with some framing members painted on. Large square C17 brick ridge stack shared with No.154 (qv). INTERIOR: retains much interesting fabric. The ground floor is lined full height with glazed tiles, including a decorative dado in blue tiles with various birds, and has a C19 cast-iron spiral stair in the rear corner, to the first floor. There is a large transverse chamfered beam near the back, and a small light. The basement has a ceiling of stone slabs on cast-iron angles or tees, and a concrete floor. A section of barrel vaulting lies beneath the pavement, its full depth concealed by inserted apparatus. The first-floor room is fully lined with mid C18 fielded panelling, but partly concealed by a large built-in cold room. There are two 2-panel fielded doors, and, beside the chimney breast, a similar cupboard door with splat-baluster ventilator above. The fireplace is concealed by the insertion, but evidence was produced of Jacobean carved work reputed to have been removed from here. The upper floors are approached by a tight open-well painted C18 staircase with solid string, square newels, moulded handrail, and flat stick balusters; this is all fitted to the acute angle of the rear corner. The second-floor room, originally open to roof, has heavy exposed framed and braced walls, and an C18 fire surround with moulded mantel shelf. The windows have early glass, and include a scratched 'Mary Logos 1738'. The attic has wind-bracing to both slopes, and a small dormer at the back in addition to the main front one. A fine late medieval property which retains much fabric and finishing of historic interest.

Listing NGR: SO8928532698