Number 9 Including Yard Wall

Details

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 CHURCH STREET 859-1/6/86 (South side) 04/03/52 No.9 including yard wall

GV II*

House in row, with shop. C14 or early C15, with C19 shop front and important restoration work by Thomas Collins, late C19. Stud framing with rails, braced box framing, tile roof. PLAN: a cross-gabled block, with transverse roof-slope brought down to eaves either side of broad single gable facing street. 2-room plan, carried over Lilley's Alley to the right, with double jetty, but ground-floor shop front brought forward under a tiled pent roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement. In the gable a large 3-light casement with leading, in a surround with stopped chamfers to each of the lights. Below the jetty is a continuous run of 8 small 2-light casements with leading, set to the studding, behind a screen of ogee-headed openings with central slender wood colonnette; the screen appears to be largely Collins' restoration work, no doubt following the original detail. The ground floor has a plate-glass shop front with deep recessed central glazed door under a transom-light, all beneath a pent roof which embraces the entry to Lilley's Alley, with paired pilasters to the opening. The basement lights have been covered in. In the alley the partition to the left is square panel light framing with brick fill. Beyond is an enclosing yard wall, behind which is the framed wall of the main block; beyond is Tudor Cottage (qv), a separate property. INTERIOR: ground floor has been considerably altered to form a continuous shop area, but the heavy post with bracket remains at the front showing the position of the original first-floor jetty. A flight of brick steps gives access to the basement, with a brick floor, a heavy chamfered central beam, and in the wall to the street stone rebated and chamfered jambs, without head, to a former doorway; this is a detail repeated in the adjacent No.10 (qv), suggesting a common building date. A tight wooden spiral stair rises to the first floor, where the front parlour, formerly running the full width of the front, above the alley, has been subdivided, with a small kitchen which has C19 panelling and an C18 plank door with early hinges. The parlour has heavy tension bracing to the party wall, and the back room has 2 transverse beams and square panel braced frame walls. There is no evidence of original fireplaces. The spiral stair to the attics has an C18 panelled door, and there is a second very steep stair with turned balusters and newel. The front room adjoining No.8 has a chamfered wind-brace, and pegged purlin, which has been modified to give access to the window, and a central propped beam. The back room, with very steep ceiling slopes, has a pair of braced principals and a heavy chamfered purlin. There are some remnants of lath-and-plaster walling. This is one of a group of early framed buildings at the east end of Church Street, including No.8 (Berkeley Arms), and Nos 10, 15 & 16 (qqv), all retaining important elements of original structure. The facade is chiefly remarkable for its row of ogee-headed window openings, some of which are original and of early Gothic type: these represent a most important and significant survival - Nos 82-3 Church Street (qv) have retained later medieval fenestration. Thomas Collins, Tewkesbury's "...first important conservator..." (VCH) was responsible for the later C19 restoration of the building. (Victoria County History: Gloucestershire: London: 1968-: 128).

Listing NGR: SO8925632635

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Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1968), 128

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