Former National School

The Former National School, now known as the Abbey Office, was founded in 1813 and built in 1817, with an enlargement in 1842. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a slate hipped roof behind a parapet, designed in the Tudor Gothic style. The building is a lofty, free-standing rectangular block with two storeys and a three-by-four window layout. Each window has two-light stone recessed chamfered-mullion and transom casements set within flush surrounds, all under stopped drip courses.

The front elevation facing Church Street has a slightly protruding central bay, which features a pair of plank doors set on four sandstone steps within a four-centred arch that includes a stopped drip and decorative spandrels. Above the doors is a raised commemorative panel that reads: "NATIONAL SCHOOL FOUNDED 1813 ENLARGED 1842," also under a stopped drip. The building has a plinth, an enriched coved cornice adorned with florets, two gargoyles, a blocking course, and a saddle back parapet.

The side facing Abbey Churchyard is similar but lacks a door. The left return, which faces an alley, is made of rough coursed squared stone and features five scattered windows without any decorative elements. The far left includes a six-panel flush beaded door with segmental voussoirs, accessed by one sandstone step. The rear of the building is partly obscured by a timber-framed extension from 1842, which has two visible windows at the first floor.

The interior has not been inspected. Historically, the building occupies part of the site of a former detached belfry of the Abbey, which was demolished in 1816, and it was completed at a cost of £1,345.8.3. According to Bennett in "The History of Tewkesbury" (1830), it is described as "a very neat and substantial structure."