1, High Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1952. House. 4 related planning applications.
1, High Street
- WRENN ID
- eternal-lantern-crimson
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Tewkesbury
- Constituency
- Tewkesbury MP: Cameron Thomas (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, High Street, GL20 5NU
- OS grid reference
- SO 892 327
- Coordinates
- 51.99274, -2.15773
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 1 High Street is a house located at the end of a row of buildings, dating from the early 18th century. It features Flemish bond brickwork and a tiled roof. This tall, narrow-fronted house has an impressive brick facade, with the main body of the building angled to follow the burgage plot line and extending to Tolzey Lane. The house has three storeys and three closely spaced windows, which are 12-pane sashes set in a central bay with segmental heads. These windows are adorned with rubbed brick voussoirs and decorative keystones, all resting on moulded stone cills.
The ground floor has a full-width 20th-century shop front. Above the stone modillion cornice, there is a large blind lunette framed by a moulded architrave, situated within a shaped parapet that features moulded stone coping. The double roof, which has a central valley, is hipped at both ends. Centrally positioned above the ground floor is a clock that is cantilevered on an ornate wrought-iron bracket, which was presented by Mayor MC Smart in 1883.
To the left, the moulded parapet extends for approximately 4 meters over a plain brick wall, which includes a large 4-pane casement window at the ground floor. Beyond this section, there is a slightly curved part of the building that rises three storeys to the eaves. This section has two 12-pane sashes on the second floor, and on the first floor, there is one sash along with two smaller lights to the left. The ground floor features a larger 12-pane sash with a segmental head, a small square opening above a blocked doorway, and a 20th-century door beneath a large margin-pane transom light with two additional 20th-century lights.
The rear of the building has three storeys and two windows, all featuring 12-pane sashes with voussoirs, fluted keystones, and stone cills. The ground floor has a wide opening with a segmental head leading to a plank door. The interior has not been inspected, but a photograph from around 1900 in the Museum shows an oculus with glazing bars and three urns on the parapet.
Local climate
1, High Street receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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