LONG STREET

27 October, 2011 LONG STREET

Tetbury Families

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	Long Street has been the main street of Tetbury since the C16, and has many fine C17 & C18 houses. The Victoria County History suggests that its being level was a main factor in some of the fine houses being build on it.


				1838 map reproduced with permission of Gloucestershire Archives


			Notable Buildings Church House The Close Lloyds Bank building Balmuir House Ormonds Head Hotel Gastrell House The Ferns Cambridge House Porch House The Old House [no 44] Police Station & Magistrates Court



		1890s map showing the sites of some of these buildings.

	In the 1860 rate books there were 23 cottages; 47 houses; 1 house etc.; 1 parcel land; 2 offices; 1 bank; 1 public house/hotel [Ormonds Head] The property owners were: BARRETT; BOX; CHURCHWARDENS; CLARK; COWLEY; DASH; FOSTER; GARDNER; GOODWYN & WALKER; HARDING; HOME; KILMISTER; LAMB; LEWIS; LLOYD; LUDLOW; MAGGS; PAUL; PRIDE; RICH; SEALY; SHIPTON; SMITH; STREET; TINDALL; VIZER; WEARE; WOOD; YARNTON;



BELOW 1968 photograph showing the old petrol station on the left. Further below is a similar view from 2005 [Woolsack Races day hence the large volume of people. Photo © Lynne Cleaver 2005





					ABOVE: two photographs of Long Street, nd. but probably early C20. The Close is on the left in the image to the right.

SOURCES:

Victoria County History available online

IMAGES OF ENGLAND website

No 8 [CLOSE HOTEL]
No 10/12
No 11/13/15
No 14
No 18
No 20
No 22
No 23 [GENTLE GARDENER/ORMONDS HEAD]
No 24
No 25
No 26
No 27
No 28
No 29
No 32
No 33 [GASTRELL HOUSE]
No 34 [SPENCER HOUSE]
No 35
No 36/38
No 37/39
No 40 [PORCH HOUSE]
No 41
No 43
No 44 [THE OLD HOUSE]
No 44 [THE OLD HOUSE STABLE]
No 45
No 46
No 48
No 50/52
No 54/56
No 55
No 57
No 58

GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHIVES:

Tetbury Parish Poor Rates 1860 P328a/OV1/32

D1347/T19 - date: 1725-1911 Messuages in West Street, Long Street and The Green, with wills with probate of Francis BELL and Sarah BELL, 1877, 1891; copies of wills of Thos NEWCOMBE, 1776, and Mrs. Georgiana PRYDE; conditions of sale of messuages in Long Street, Tetbury, and Hankerton, Wilts, and related papers.

CHAPEL RECORDS - D3931/2
Tetbury (Long Street) [Wesleyan] Property Plans and elevations, contract, accounts and papers relating to new Mission Hall, Long Street - ref. D3931/2/15/4 - date: 1901-1910 Plan and elevations of new vestry, Long Street - ref. D3931/2/15/9 - date: c.1945-1946

D4457/6 - date: 1878-1891 Invoices and receipts relating to Jonas Milnes, 1878-80, and [Alexander Low] Thompson, druggist and chemist, 1885-91, both of Long Street, Tetbury

D1405/4/353 - date: 1949 35, 37 & 39 Long Street (shops)

D1405/19/3 - date: 1934 Includes Lechlade Manor; Siddington Hall, Cirencester; Primitive Methodist Church, King Street, Cheltenham; 36, 38 & 40 Long Street, Tetbury

D185/22/6 - date: 1799 Mansion house in Long Street, gardens and orchard, agreement to convert great hall into a shop and take down the porch

D2930/2 Letter book of John Letal, attorney of Tetbury. date: [1810]-1820 Addresse and Subject: Mr. Player. "the old lady at the top of the Long Street... is totally changed," - has committed will to fire and made another "quite the reverse of the first". "The doctor tells me she is in great danger. You may call on her today but I know not whether it will be of any service".

D3313/4 - date: 1914 Lease for 21 years to Wallace Munday and Sam. Fowler of premises in Long Street, Tetbury

D4084/Box23/3 - date: 1920 Oxford House, Long Street: deeds, schedules of deeds, 1920 (Pride, Pegler)

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