29, Barton Street

The building at 29 Barton Street is a restaurant, originally a house built in the late 15th or 16th century, with a front dating to the 18th century. It is constructed of painted brick with a timber frame and has a tile roof, featuring a brick stack at the rear eaves. The plan is of a long, narrow block, likely built at the same time as the adjoining property at No. 30, with which it interlocks at the back.

The exterior is two storeys and an attic, with a two-window front. A two-light gabled dormer sits above two deep-set 12-pane sash windows, set onto stone sills. A 19th-century shop front extends to the left, incorporating a four-panel part-glazed door. The return gable to the left, now exposed due to the setting back of a late 20th-century police station, exhibits an attic window set into the exposed timber framing, which appears to belong to a demolished building adjacent to No. 29. A large square brick stack rises from the rear eaves.

The interior retains significant portions of the original timber frame. The main front room has heavy square panelling with a large transverse beam, featuring a 150mm chamfer carried on an extremely deep plate beam. A reset 15th-century doorway with spandrel carving and an ogee-bracket is found in the back right room, slightly offset from the main space. The fireplace has a fine four-centred stone moulded surround with spandrels. An additional lower back room has large chamfered transverse beams and a framed rear wall. The room above, now a kitchen, features cross-braced timber framing. The first-floor front room exhibits fine framed party walls, a small transverse beam, and a 19th-century fireplace. The original clasped-purlin roof was replaced in the 18th century; a 15th-century queen-post truss is visible to the right, and a 16th-century two-bay clasped purlin collar-truss roof is located at the rear. The structure, concealed behind the later facade, is characteristic of the small-scale early framed buildings in Tewkesbury. Evidence of doorways on the right gable walls at ground and first-floor levels suggests the original medieval house was larger and likely included a now-demolished hall to the right.