82-83 Church Street
An exceptionally fine and well-preserved medieval town house. Pair of houses in row. Late C15 or early C16. Late C16/17 rear wing, extended late C18/C19. Close studded framing with plaster infill to front, heavy box framing elsewhere, brick underbuild; tile roofs, brick stacks. - Listing description
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PLAN: side-entry parallel plan, heated by central shared stack, with lower rear wing making L-plan.
Front is 2-windowed: No.82 has 3-light C18 leaded casement with central opening light to horizontal bars only, above same at first floor, and C20 3-pane shop front with door, left.
No.83 has 3-light wood casement at first and second floors, with good small-pane timber bow shop front oriel; to right the opening to the alley. First-floor casement flanked by 3 and 2 cusped panels as to No.82, but slightly wider lights, but bressumer above, not frieze.
Large brick stack centred behind ridge, which has some stone ridge tiles. In the brick-paved alley wall to right is heavy timber-frame, to left rendered.Interior of No.83 not inspected, but basic fabric clearly of same date as No.82 and noted as having fragments of late C16 wall painting to first-floor front room including extracts from Psalm 102 and separate text beginning "Honour thy Father..".
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Photographs send to me by Chris Partrick, Conservation Officer at Tewkesbury Borough Council. Taken in the 1950s by the Air Ministry
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Census Data 1841-1891
- Catherine Phelps, aged 85 years of Barton Terrace on 8th Oct. 1895 (TR12/10/1895)
- Catherine Phelps, aged 85 years of Barton Terrace on 8th Oct. 1895 (TR12/10/1895)
Census Data 1841-1891
- marriage at Kempsey, 25/6/1839; George Bishop, Butcher, To Miss Sarah Phillips (Bennett i p411)
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