138 and 139 High Street

A pair of early 18th-century houses, one with a shop, situated on the east side of High Street in Tewkesbury. The houses were built using Flemish bond brickwork with painted stone dressings and have a tile roof, featuring brick stacks. They are three storeys high, with an attic and a basement, and have a 2+2-window front. Number 138 features an early 18th-century gabled two-light dormer. The windows are largely 12-pane sashes set within moulded face boxes, each with brick voussoirs, plain keystones, and stone sills—an unusual feature in Tewkesbury. A 20th-century dormer is located at the rear, above two 12-pane sash windows and a large 16-pane sash window, alongside a substantial stack.

Number 138 has a large four-pane sash window to the right, above a cellar grille. To the left is a six-pane flush door with a margin-bar transom-light, framed by fluted pilasters, and to the far left is a glazed door with an elliptical fanlight containing radial bars, all beneath a moulded cornice. Number 139 has a late 20th-century shop front. Channelled pilasters extend through the first and second floors at each end and in the centre, with a plain band above the ground floor cornice and above the first-floor windows. A moulded stone eaves incorporates concealed guttering. A central ridge stack is present. A 19th-century three-storey brick wing extends to the rear, with two-light casements at the second floor and 16-pane sashes with V-joint lintels at the first floor, above a flat-roofed addition. The interior was not inspected. These houses are considered a handsome pair, largely unaltered externally, and represent a relatively rare example of complete rebuilding rather than fashionable alteration to older buildings within Tewkesbury.