81 and 82 Barton Street and 1 to 3 Mason's Court, Tewkesbury

Shop and apartments, formerly a 15th-century front range and 14th-century cruck-framed hall to rear, with two 19th-century ranges beyond.

The building comprises painted English bond brickwork to the front elevation, with brick and timber-frame construction behind finished in painted brick or plaster panels, topped with a tiled roof and brick stacks. A modern extension has been added in modern brick, uPVC cladding and tile.

The plan consists of a single-depth front range facing Barton Street, with lateral ranges behind comprising a large former hall and single-depth ranges beyond.

The front range is two bays over two storeys with an attic behind a shallow brick parapet and a steeply pitched roof with small raised extension to the east. A passageway runs under the western part of the front range, providing access to the central and rear ranges. At ground floor, a modern 21st-century shopfront with central doorway spans the entire width. The first floor has two eight-by-eight sash windows under flat arches and several metal hanging brackets of varying designs, including a decorative cross bracket in the centre. The attic storey contains two gabled two-light casement dormers. The passageway is timber-framed with brick nogging and oversailing timber-framed construction above.

The west elevation of the central range is visible from the passageway. The first four bays are two storeys with attic and feature two dormers and a pitched roof with two modern roof lights. This elevation is interrupted by an external staircase providing access to first-floor accommodation, which possibly conceals a 14th-century window head with tracery. At ground floor is a single door opening with modern door and several modern vents. Beyond is a two-bay 19th-century range of two storeys with an eight-by-eight timber sash window at ground floor. At first-floor level is a corrugated plastic roof structure projecting over the passageway. To the southern end of the passageway is a further modern extension over two storeys. At ground floor is an entrance door with a modern window above finished in uPVC cladding.

The rear elevation comprises two builds. To the south-west is a two-storey range with pitched roof, brick at ground floor and uPVC clad at first floor with casement windows at each level. Its east elevation is similar but abuts the brick 19th-century range which includes a large red brick chimney stack. To the south-east is a painted brick single-storey range with flat roof and French doors and two-light casement window to the rear. Also visible is the external gable of the central range, which is timber and brick at first floor with a three-light casement window and horizontal timber cladding above with an off-centre timber door.

At ground floor, numbers 81 and 82 Barton Street are open to the full width of the building as one large commercial space with a modern butcher counter to the rear. The rear wall of these numbers has mostly been removed to create access to the central range. Only the upstands of the original timber-framing survive. The first and second bay of the central range is subdivided into two rooms with no visible historic fabric. The third and fourth bays are open to full width with a single doorway to the west providing access onto Mason's Court. The bays further south form part of 1 Mason's Court.

The first and second floors of 81–82 Barton Street are independent apartments named 3a and 3b Mason's Court, accessed from an external staircase to the east.

3a Mason's Court is located in the front range and spans both 81 and 82 Barton Street at first-floor level. The space is divided into bathroom and kitchen in the western bay and living room and bedroom in the eastern bay. All spaces contain heavily painted timber-framing, including jowl posts, splayed heads and empty mortices for stud walls.

3b Mason's Court is located on the second floor of the front range, spanning both 81 and 82 Barton Street and also the first bay of the central range. Access is via an internal staircase in the western bay of the first floor, which lands in a small lobby. The room to the west has an exposed timber truss and large purlin as well as a dormer window. The room to the east contains further timber framing and roof structure. This room has been extended south to meet the central range, where part of the northern cruck is exposed. The kitchen and bathrooms are located in the first bay of the central range, each with a single roof light. Throughout 3a and 3b, timber-framing and roof structure are visible, including tie beams with scribed carpenter marks and scotching marks.

2 Mason's Court is located in part of the first and part of the second (attic) floor of the central range, accessed at first-floor level from the external staircase and subdivided for office use. This range is constructed of five timber-frames creating four bays, but only the first two bays form part of 2 Mason's Court at first-floor level. The remaining bays are now part of 1 Mason's Court. The first bay is located in the covered landing of the external staircase with a small kitchenette to the west, where parts of the first cruck truss are visible. The second bay has been divided into three rooms with modern partitions, with the lower ends of the second truss visible in each. An internal staircase leads to the second floor (attic), divided on the line of the roof frames, where the apexes of the first, second and fifth frames are visible from the roof space and the apexes of the third and fourth frames are visible from the second floor. The range terminates in a gable wall with a small doorway opening to the rear elevation.

1 Mason's Court occupies the southern two bays of the central range at first-floor level and the two rear ranges to the south. No internal inspection was made, but access is provided by a doorway at the southern end of the passageway in Mason's Court. An internal passageway provides access to the south-western range, the south-eastern range, and the southern range, each providing a single room. Within the south-eastern range, part of the external ground-floor cruck truss from the central range is visible, providing evidence that the central range had a full cruck. The south-western and eastern ranges have back-to-back fireplaces in the central dividing wall. A staircase is located in the southernmost range. At first floor, the third and fourth bays of the central range are divided into two rooms with visible cruck frames. The south-western range is two-storey, with the original room divided into corridor and room by partition. The rear range provides one room and staircase.

A cellar below the front range is accessed via steps from Mason's Court and enters two rooms of roughly equal size. All walls have been lined with concrete except the rear wall, which is coursed stone.