121, High Street

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 HIGH STREET 859-1/6/249 (East side) 04/03/52 No.121

GV II

House in row, with restaurant. c1840, but linking with C17 rear property in Trinity Street (qv No.6, Tudor Cottage). Stuccoed, some timber-framing in rear, tile roof. The rebuilt High Street frontage is backed by a framed, gabled unit with steep pitched roof. 3 storeys, 2-windowed. Large 16-pane sashes at second floor and 20-pane at first floor, all in moulded architraves and plain cills. The C20 rebuilding of the ground floor is in channelled rendering, with a wide central pair of of small-pane glazed doors flanked by smaller pairs each side, under a continuous fascia. The upper storeys have panelled pilasters to centre and ends, carrying an entablature with moulded cornice, panelled blocking-course, and parapet coping. The back has a high framed gable, mainly concealed by Tudor Cottage; this lower framed building is partly occupied by 121, and includes a large casement at first floor, and a plank door in pilasters, with one console bracket, and an C18 moulded architrave with entablature, immediately behind the main building. There is a cropped brick stack to the right. This re-fronting has detailing similar to the flanking 120 and 122 (qqv) adjoining, and appears to have been carried out as one rebuilding operation. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8933232874