2, HIGH STREET
2, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1280304
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 2, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1280304
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 2, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, 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:
- 2, 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 89265 32720
Details
TEWKESBURY
SO8932 HIGH STREET 859-1/6/182 (West side) 04/03/52 No.2
GV II*
House in row. Early C18. Flemish bond brickwork, tile and felt roofs. The front block is linked to a square 4-storey block by an inset unit, all of this of the C18. Beyond is a later brick addition linked via a late C20 glazed passageway. Front is 3 storeys, 3-windowed. wide 9-pane sashes at second floor and 12-pane at first floor each side, but second-floor centre has a blind oculus with keystones at the cardinal points, and first floor an arched sash with early C19 interlaced head. All windows are set to the wall face under rubbed brick voussoirs, and with central fluted keystones with cornice, and stone cills. The ground floor has symmetrical 4-pane C19 shop front in pilasters and fascia with moulded cornice between bold consoles. Central recessed glazed door under a square transom-light. Inside the glass at the set-back are 2 slender quatrefoil-plan cast-iron columns. Above a stone modillion cornice is a rendered parapet with a segmental raised centre. The back of this main building has a coped parapet over small early C18 12-pane sashes and a C20 light to segmental heads; a slated lean-to addition at the ground floor. A 4-storey rear block in brick has a felted flat roof and is in 2 bays, with 12-pane sashes at second and third floors above a fine Palladian window with Gibbsian arch, pilasters, and open moulded pediment over 3:12:3-paned sashes. The lowest floor has a wide 4-pane C20 light. Flank walls are rendered, and an external steel stair gives access to the link block, with flat felted roof and rendered wall. At the eaves level is a tripartite 12-pane sash with wide mullion boxes (but the first sash modified), above a paired sash, the same, linked with a flush door under a moulded cornice. Below this is C20 infill. INTERIOR not inspected. A 1900 photograph in the Museum shows the parapet with 3 large urns, and with a saddle-back coping.
Listing NGR: SO8926532720
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376765
- 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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