HSHAZ grants’ gallery
The High Street Heritage Action Zone (HSHAZ) in Tewkesbury was set up in 2020, a four year project funded jointly by HM Government through Historic England and Tewkesbury Borough Council. It aimed to deliver grant funding to improve commercial premises in the historic centre of Tewkesbury and projects to help enhance some of the public spaces in the town centre.
The gallery of images below records some of the projects which have been completed, showing before and after images of each project and a short summary of the work undertaken. You can see all of the projects in the HSHAZ end of project summary on the HSHAZ home page.
No. 59 Church Street
The first project completed saw traditional lead work reinstated over the main window, redecoration and traditional sign-writing in place of the former metal sign.
No. 3 Church Street
The modern UPVC windows on three floors were removed and replaced with double-glazed wooden sashes, before redecoration and traditional sign-writing.
No. 18 High Street – the Town Hall
Here the grant mainly covered repairs to the stonework and roof, as well as a light clean to the façade.
No. 93 Church Street
A small project to make repairs to the timber-framed windows, redecorate and sign-write.
Spring Gardens car park
A public drinking water fountain was installed following requests from the public during the community street audit.
Riverside railings St. Mary’s Road
The old chicken mesh fencing was removed and replaced with three bar railings to match others along the riverside.
Riverside railings Prior’s Court
The tall chicken mesh fence was replaced with lower level, post and rail fence.
17 Church Street
Repairs to roof parapet and plasterwork, extensive repairs to woodwork, redecoration and sign-writing of the building name.
78 Church Street
Repairs to upper floor windows.
91 Church Street
Repairs to woodwork and lead valley gutter to fascia on side elevation; installation of downpipe and discharge to prevent future water ingress.
38 High Street
Repairs to brickwork, replacement concrete keystone with traditional one over one window, removal of unused awning supports, redecoration and new signwriting to fascia.
New town centre refuse bins
Installation of eight new litter bins around the town centre to match existing.
