138 and 139 High Street

138 and 139, High Street

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201271
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1952
List Entry Name:
138 and 139 High Street
Statutory Address:
138 and 139, High Street
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201271
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1952
List Entry Name:
138 and 139 High Street
Statutory Address 1:
138 and 139, High Street

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
138 and 139, 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 32771

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 July 2023 to amend details in the description and to reformat the text to current standards

SO8932
859-1/6/264

TEWKESBURY
HIGH STREET (East side)
Nos.138 and 139

04/03/52

GV
II

Pair of houses in row, one with shop under. Early C18. Flemish bond brickwork with painted stone dressings, tile roof, brick stacks. Three storeys, attic and basement, 2+2-windowed. One early C18 gabled two-light dormer to 138, then all 12-pane sashes in moulded face boxes, under brick voussoirs with plain keystones (unusual in Tewkesbury) on stone cills. At the rear there is a C20 dormer above two 12-pane sash window and a large 16-pane sash window; there is also a very large stack.

No. 138 has a large four-pane sash to the right, above a cellar grille, then to the left a six-pane flush door under a margin-bar transom-light, in fluted pilasters, and, far left, in fluted incised pilasters, a glazed door under an elliptical fanlight with radial bars; all this beneath a moulded cornice.

No. 139 has a late C20 shop front. At each end and in the centre are channelled pilasters through first and second floors, with a plain band above the ground floor cornice and above the first floor windows. The moulded stone eaves carries concealed guttering. Central ridge stack. At the rear there is a C19 brick wing in three storeys, with two-light casements at second floor and 16-pane sashes to V-joint lintels at first floor, above a flat-roofed addition.

INTERIOR not inspected.

This is a very handsome pair of houses, little changed externally, a relatively rare example in Tewkesbury of complete rebuilding rather than a fashionable refacing to older fabric.

Listing NGR: SO8930732771

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Legacy System number:
376846
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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