Abbey Barn

TEWKESBURY

SO83SE MILL STREET 859-1/2/305 (West side) 27/07/73 Abbey Barn (Formerly Listed as: MILL STREET (South side) Fitzhamon Art Centre and Tewkesbury Pottery)

GV II

Remains of barn, sometime malt house and granary, now used as store. C15, C17 and C19. Coursed lias, dressings in Guiting stone, brick, tiled roofs. PLAN: a long building with 2 parallel hipped roofs, incorporating on the river side a section of the Abbey Precinct wall or former barn. EXTERIOR: to Mill Street 2 hipped ends, to left with inserted wide garage doors, and to right a plank door at first floor at head of flight of stone stairs carried partly on return of stone wall and buttresses of medieval wall. At corner a brick oriel at 45 degrees, with 4-pane fixed light under flat roof. To left is further unit, at one time used as fire station, with large plank doors, but with some C18 brick fabric under hipped tiled roof. River front has coursed lias masonry in 5 bays with 6 deep buttresses with weathered offsets, and raised in brickwork to eaves level. Bays 1 and 2 have inserted C19 or C20 dressed stone blocked openings with 2-light mullioned window, bays 3 and 4 with small brick inserts, and bay 5 a large inserted opening in dressed stone on 5 stone steps. The brick upper level has several 2-light casements, partly concealed by overgrowth. West end 2 gables above flat-roofed extension, and with casements at eaves, and S front, to car park of The Bell (qv) in English garden wall bond brickwork on offset 3-course plinth, with various 3-light casements at levels, and door far left. INTERIOR: in 2 levels throughout, has series of rough chamfered transverse beams at approx 2.5m centres and C17 propped purlin trusses. In poor condition at time of survey.

Listing NGR: SO8893432508