1, High Street

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 HIGH STREET 859-1/6/181 (West side) 04/03/52 No.1

GV II*

House at end of street row. Early C18. Flemish bond brickwork, tile roof. A lofty narrow-frontage house with fine brick front; the body of the building is at an angle, following the burgage plot line, and returns to Tolzey Lane. 3 storeys, 3 close-set windows. 12-pane sashes, in central bay to segmental heads, and all to rubbed brick voussoirs with decorative keystone with cornice, on moulded stone cills. Ground floor has full-width C20 shop front. Above the stone modillion cornice is a large blind lunette in a moulded architrave, in a shaped parapet with moulded stone coping. The double roof, to a central valley, has hipped ends. Above the ground floor, centrally, is a clock cantilevered on an ornate wrought-iron bracket, presented by the Mayor, MC Smart, in 1883. The moulded parapet returns left for approx 4m over a plain brick wall, with one large 4-pane casement at the ground floor. Beyond this is a slightly curved section in 3 storeys to eaves, with two 12-pane sashes at second floor, and at first floor one sash plus 2 smaller lights to the left. Ground floor has a larger 12-pane sash to segmental head, a small square opening above a blocked doorway, and a C20 door under a large margin-pane transom-light and two C20 lights. The back is in 3 storeys, 2-windowed: all 12-pane sashes to voussoirs with fluted keystones and stone cills; at the ground floor is a wide opening to segmental head over plank door. INTERIOR not inspected. A 1900 photograph in the Museum shows an oculus with glazing bars and 3 urns to the parapet.

Listing NGR: SO8926632710