TEWKESBURY MUSEUM AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

TEWKESBURY MUSEUM AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 64, BARTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1204935
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1952
List Entry Name:: TEWKESBURY MUSEUM AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: TEWKESBURY MUSEUM AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 64, BARTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1204935
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1952
List Entry Name:: TEWKESBURY MUSEUM AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: TEWKESBURY MUSEUM AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 64, BARTON STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TEWKESBURY MUSEUM AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 64, BARTON 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 89434 32702

Details

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 BARTON STREET 859-1/6/56 (South side) 04/03/52 No.64 Tewkesbury Museum and attached railings

GV II*

Formerly 2 houses in row, now town museum. Early C17 or more likely mid C17, but incorporating some C16 work. Close-studded timber-framing, rendering, brickwork, tile roof, brick stacks. PLAN: a double-jettied front block, staircase hall off to left, paired front rooms, with back room giving an L plan. The off-centre entrance has a stone-flagged passage, probably originally a throughway. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2-windowed. At second floor are 3-light ovolo-moulded casements with transom under projecting 3-part eaves course to a concealed gutter, and on 3 console brackets. The first floor has full-width range of ovolo-moulded casements with transom, including central canted oriel under moulded bressumer to jetty with end brackets. Ground floor, under moulded bressumer, has replacement 6-light and a low 3-light casement, with a pair of 2-panel doors in plastered cheeks. Windows all with rectangular leading. To left of entrance a section of close-set oak railings of C16 or C17, set forward from front wall. Hipped roof, large brick stack to left. Return wall to right in brick, with broad external stack. The back wing, in modified English bond, has a plain brick gable with a large external stack. INTERIOR: the front ground floor has been modified, but the back room, beyond the staircase, has a very large rough transverse beam, with added mouldings, and a 5-light casement. The open-well stair with quarter-landings has a solid string, with stick balusters and square newels. It is lit by a 5-light casement. First-floor front, left, has complete C17 panelled walls, wide floorboards, central plastered beam. Above the window is a continuous frieze of C17 chip-carving. The right room is not panelled, and has 2 plastered beams with mouldings to the front only. The small back room, lit by 3+2-light casements, has central moulded plaster beam, and wide floor boards. Second-floor front left has large late C17 oval enriched plaster panel as central compartment with heavy plastered and moulded beams, at one point carried on a post with console bracket; a modillion cornice in part, and the cornice carries through the rear partition. Pilasters to decorative scroll-like heads and panelled plinths flank the window. Room to right has 2 heavy sagging plastered beams, but is otherwise plain. At the stair-head, leading to the back room, a C17 six-panel door in very thin members. The hipped front block with deep eaves and window strips is similar to No.100 Church Street (qv) as in exhibiting application of broadly Renaissance forms to a traditional timber-frame structure. This property is also notable for representing a departure from the traditional (for town houses up to the mid C17) side-entry plan, in having a central passageway between 2 heated rooms and a staircase (since replaced) in the back wing. (Victoria County History: Gloucestershire: London: 1968-: 131-2).

Listing NGR: SO8943432702

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Legacy System number:: 376642
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1968), 131-2

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.