59, Church Street

59 Church Street is a house and shop located in Tewkesbury, dating from the 16th century with an early 19th-century front. The building is set gable to the street and features a front made of Flemish bond brickwork, while the main structure is timber-framed. It includes a cross gable and a deep back wing, which originally served as a back block to the front range. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a single window on the front. There is a two-light small-pane casement window with a stone sill in the gable, above a 20th-century replacement, both set within brick voussoirs. On the ground floor, beneath a full-width timber fascia, there is an eight-pane fixed shop window, with a part-glazed door to the left, all within a rendered wall. A brick stack is positioned to the right of the ridge, behind a transverse ridge. On the return to Chandlers Court at the left, there is a narrow gabled dormer with an 18th-century lead-paned casement, along with a back wing that showcases large panel timber-framing.

Inside, the building has two front rooms, each featuring heavy transverse chamfered beams with stepped run-out stops; the beam in the front room is supported by later figure corbels. There is a winder stair, and the central stack has been rebuilt internally. Although the back block is not fully accessible, it appears to be a rare example of post-medieval urban planning. The exact connection to the front range is unclear, but similar houses of the "gallery and back-block" type can be found in Devon towns such as Totnes and Barnstaple.