Description

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 HIGH STREET 859-1/6/208 (West side) 04/03/52 No.42 Green's (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (West side) No.42 Anchor Hotel)

GV II

Inn. Early C19, ground floor late C19 or early C20. Painted brick, slate roofs, brick stacks. A wide but shallow front block with a return wing to Quay Street, and a second wing at the left hand end. 3 storeys and basement, 4-windowed. Broad 16-pane sashes to brick voussoirs, and keystones, decorated with urns at first floor and floral swags at second floor. The ground floor is rendered, and with rusticated joints under a frieze with dentilled cornice. 2 wide lights have 4 small panes above the transom in segmental heads with voussoirs and keystone. The central door has side lights, with a transom-light to a similar segmental head, all in a pilaster case and open pediment. Basement grille to the left. Small plinth returned to the left, and small modillion cornice is stopped to the front, with blocking course and coped parapet. 2 large brick stacks at rear eaves. The return to Quay Street has a narrow section to a haunched parapet, with one 12-pane sash at first floor, right, with keystone. Then, to left, and lower, a 3-storey wing with 2 horizontal 12-pane sashes above 16-pane. The ground floor is detailed as the front, but with a central 4-panel door to radial fanlight and arch in pilaster doorcase with open pediment. This flanked each side by plain lights with 2 lights above a transom, and in segmental heads with small keystone. The frieze and cornice is also carried round. The back of the main block has a wide central gable above a wide segmental-headed opening. To the left is the mansard-roofed wing. A small lead-covered octagonal light is set at the junction between these two blocks. INTERIOR not inspected. This building, formerly the Anchor Hotel, holds an important corner site in the High Street, and the front block has been given high ceilings to create an imposing presence.

Listing NGR: SO8934332991

External Links

• Wikidata Q26501825

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