NEWTON HOUSE

NEWTON HOUSE, 26 AND 27, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1280642
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1952
List Entry Name:: NEWTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: NEWTON HOUSE, 26 AND 27, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1280642
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:: NEWTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: NEWTON HOUSE, 26 AND 27, CHURCH 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:: NEWTON HOUSE, 26 AND 27, CHURCH 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 89175 32569

Details

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 CHURCH STREET 859-1/6/101 (South side) 04/03/52 Nos.26 AND 27 Newton House (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (South side) No.26) (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (South side) No.27)

GV II*

House in row, now offices. Late C14 or C15, mainly remodelled in C18 and refronted early C19. Flemish brickwork, slate roofs, brick stacks. PLAN: the front building (a probable former solar block) comprises a main street block with a small set-back low hipped addition (formerly No.26) used as the entrance area; behind the principal block, and attached to it, a long gabled wing, formerly an open hall, now much modified. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, 3-windowed. 16-pane sashes to rubbed brick voussoirs, but no glazing bars at ground floor, cill string to first floor, stone cills elsewhere. Good 6-panel fielded door to right in pilaster surround to open pediment over obscured fanlight. Brick stacks both party walls. Left return is plain brick with a central sash to second floor, but for about 3m height from ground the wall in good ashlar, and with remains of blocked 2-light casement. Small hipped 2-storey slated extension with canted corner and panelled door. Main roof is double hipped behind parapet to street and return. Sashes in rear wall. Attached rear left is long 2-storey wing with steep gabled roof, plain wall to left side, but 3+1-windowed towards garden; at first floor are three 3-light wood casements and a 2-light C20 steel, and ground floor has various C20 including flat canted bay, but also good C18 canted bay with 12-pane sashes on 3 faces, and covered by hipped glazed roof which appears to be of same date. Towards right a 6-panel fielded door under propped canopy. Small raking dormer far left, very large ridge stack and one other towards left. Deep fascia board possibly concealing plate. INTERIOR of front block includes various good panelled doors in moulded architraves, and a lateral dogleg stair to stick balustrade and Doric newels. Below this is cellar stair, with first 3 steps in brick plus timber front, remainder stone. Front cellar floor in brick, ceiling with heavy transverse rough-chamfered beams. Cellar to rear (hall) section has several very heavy rough chamfered beams, but ends to a brick wall with recesses, and a stair, not accessible from above. The rear wing is now fully divided into 2 floors, but retains various trusses with cambered tie, and collar with cusped ogee-headed bracing above; this detail also at the half-bay points, at head of chamfered wind-braces. 2 roof bays only were seen, but this reputed to continue through wing, and to show signs of smoke blackening. A first-floor front room in wing has fine shouldered C18 fire surround with pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice, also corner cupboard with painted shell recess, above field panel cupboard door on H-hinges. Central ground-floor room has C17 panelling to fireplace wall; this is room with bay to glazed roof. The rear wing must have been a major medieval hall house, discernible now only from the overall form and remains of roof structure. Later work, especially of the C18, is also of high quality, and is all being maintained with care. No.26 was listed on 27.7.73.

Listing NGR: SO8917532569

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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.