Tudor Cottage

Tudor Cottage is a pair of houses located on Barton Street in Tewkesbury, dating from the early to mid-16th century, with some early 19th-century alterations to the front. The buildings feature a braced close-stud timber frame with plaster panels, a painted brick underbuild, and a tile roof with brick stacks. The layout includes a front jettied range that runs parallel to the street, with the first floor originally open to the roof. The jettied front has two storeys with an attic and two gabled back wings.

The facade has a one-over-one window arrangement, with a small gabled dormer set high in the roof slope of No.36. The first floor has three-light and two-light replacement casements with horizontal bars, while the ground floor features a 16-pane sash and a square 12-pane window. To the left and center, there are plank stable doors in broad frames, each accessed by two stone steps. There is a brick stack on the right gable and in the back wing, which is timber-framed with a weather-boarded gable end.

Inside No.36, there is a heavy transverse beam in the ground-floor front room and a deep rear wing. The first floor has a wood bressumer fire in the central chimney breast, but other fireplaces are blocked or have been renewed. A very large tie-beam is present in the framed wall, and the attic features large rough purlins with some wind-bracing. The wing also has wind-bracing and a rear gable with braced framing, along with remains of a spiral wood staircase leading to the attic. No.37 is similar but has less exposed work and alterations to the rear wing. Both main entrance doors have several battens on the back. The properties are under one ownership, and the spatial division is not limited to the central party wall.