67, High Street

TEWKESBURY

SO8933 HIGH STREET 859-1/5/227 (West side) No.67

GV II

House in row, ground floor remnant only, now (1992) used as a club-room. Early C17, remodelled C19. Painted brickwork, flat felted roof. Remains of a former 3-storey parallel-plan jettied house, reputedly destroyed by fire in the mid-C20, but retaining an important early doorway and door. One storey with basement, 2-windowed. 4-pane sashes in eared architraves on stone cills. Pavement cellar access hatch. To the left, set back on 2 sandstone steps is a fine 4-plank studded door with strap hinges, under the remains of a deep moulded bressumer, and in curved moulded brackets: with paterae (bracket to left is late C19 replacement) The front has a high plinth, and a blocking course with parapet above a 3-course brick string. The single room behind appears to be a C20 rebuilding. Ross (The Book of Tewkesbury) has an 1890 view showing a fine jettied building with large Tudor stack in this position immediately adjoining the Black Bear Inn (qv); it shows clearly that at that time the ground floor, with its set-back door, was exactly as it now remains, so that the underbuilding and fenestration are of C19 date. There was also a very grand early staircase.

Listing NGR: SO8941333162