Abbey Barn

Abbey Barn is a historic building located on Mill Street in Tewkesbury. It has origins dating back to the 15th, 17th, and 19th centuries and has served various purposes, including as a barn, malt house, and granary. Currently, it is used as a storage facility. The structure features coursed lias stone with Guiting stone dressings, brick elements, and tiled roofs.

The building has a long plan with two parallel hipped roofs, and on the river side, it incorporates a section of the Abbey Precinct wall or a former barn. The exterior facing Mill Street has two hipped ends, with the left side featuring wide garage doors and the right side having a plank door at the first floor, accessed by a flight of stone stairs supported partly by the stone wall and medieval buttresses. A brick oriel at a 45-degree angle is located at the corner, with a four-pane fixed light beneath a flat roof. To the left, there is an additional unit that was once a fire station, which has large plank doors and some 18th-century brickwork beneath its hipped tiled roof.

The river front showcases coursed lias masonry divided into five bays, supported by six deep buttresses with weathered offsets, and raised in brickwork to the eaves level. Bays one and two contain inserted 19th or 20th-century dressed stone blocked openings with two-light mullioned windows, while bays three and four have small brick inserts, and bay five features a large inserted opening in dressed stone accessed by five stone steps. The upper level of the brickwork has several two-light casements, which are partly obscured by overgrowth.

At the west end, there are two gables above a flat-roofed extension, with casements at the eaves. The south front, facing the car park of The Bell, is constructed in English garden wall bond brickwork on a three-course plinth and includes various three-light casements at different levels, along with a door on the far left.

Inside, the barn has two levels and features a series of rough chamfered transverse beams spaced approximately 2.5 meters apart, along with 17th-century propped purlin trusses. The condition of the interior was noted to be poor at the time of the survey.