Tudor Cottage

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 BARTON STREET 859-1/6/33 (North side) 04/03/52 Nos.36 AND 37 Tudor Cottage (36)

GV II

Pair of houses in row. Early/mid C16, some early C19 to front. Braced close-stud timber-frame with plaster panels, painted brick underbuild, tile roof, brick stacks. Plan with front jettied range parallel to street, first floor orginally open to roof. Jettied front in 2 storeys with attic, and 2 gabled back wings. 1+1-windowed; a very small gabled dormer set high in the roof slope to No.36, 3-light and 2-light replacement casements with horizontal bars at first floor, and a 16-pane and square 12-pane to ground floor. To left and centre plank stable doors in broad frames, each on 2 stone steps. Brick stack to right gable, and to back wing, which is timber-framed with weather-boarded gable end. INTERIOR: No.36 has a heavy transverse beam in the ground-floor front room, and a deep rear wing. At first floor is a wood bressumer fire to the central chimney breast, but elsewhere fireplaces are blocked or renewed, and there is a very large tie-beam in the framed wall. The attic, with large rough purlins has some wind-bracing, and all members are large. The wing also has wind-bracing, and a rear gable with braced framing. Remains of a spiral wood staircase to the attic level. No.37 is similar, but with less exposed work, and alterations to the rear wing. Both main entrance doors have several battens to the back. The properties are in one ownership, and spatial division is not confined to the central party wall.

Listing NGR: SO8949232734