137, HIGH STREET
137, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1052263
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 137, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 137, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1052263
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 137, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 137, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 137, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Tewkesbury (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tewkesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 89307 32780
Details
TEWKESBURY
SO8932 HIGH STREET 859-1/6/263 (East side) 04/03/52 No.137
GV II*
House in row, with shop. Early C18 front on C15 fabric; C17 joinery; altered and reroofed in mid C19. Flemish bond brickwork, square panel timber-framing to rear, tile roof, brick stacks. PLAN: 2-room right-angle plan with narrower rear 2-bay C15 range. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2-windowed. Plain sashes with brick voussoirs and central decorative keystones with cornice, stone cills. C19 pilaster shop front with central recessed door under a deep fascia with moulded cornice and scrolled ends. Stone modillion cornice, rebuilt blocking course with concrete coping, returned at the ends. The party wall to the alley to the left (under No.136 (qv)) is in square panel framing, on a heavy plate and stone plinth course. This wall contains 2 doorways, one blocked, and one in a moulded architrave. The back of the main range has a wide gable, with some framing and C20 brickwork, and a decayed 16-pane sash, then a 2-storey wing in heavy square framing, with a gable stack, and a further framed wing in 2 storeys with attic and tiled roof. INTERIOR: details of the rear wing include a chamfered arch-braced truss with moulded centre, corner jowl posts and wind-braces, ceiled above the collar; the front range has a right-hand stair from the ground floor, first-floor has C17 scratch-moulded 9-panel cupboard with inscribed lozenges and flowers to the panels beneath a roll-moulded cornice in the rear room, C17 panelled door to an attic winder stair; the ground-floor rear room contains more C17 cupboard doors, and a good carved Jacobean overmantel with terms.
Listing NGR: SO8930732780
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376845
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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