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Tewkesbury claims Gloucestershire's oldest public house, the Black Bear, dating from 1308.
Other notable buildings are the Royal Hop Pole Hotel in Church Street ( which has recently been converted into a part of the Wetherspoons pub chain with the discovery of a former medieval banqueting hall in the structure ), mentioned in Charles Dickens ' The Pickwick Papers, the Bell Hotel, a large half-timbered structure opposite the Abbey gateway, and the House of the Nodding Gables in the High Street.
The historic Abbey Cottages, over 500 years old, were rescued from dereliction in the 1970s ; one houses a museum, the others are residential homes and commercial offices.
At the Tudor House Hotel in the High Street however, although it is indeed chiefly a Tudor building, the frontage comprises artificial half-timbering attached to a brick-built facade.
The local branch of Store Twenty-One ( formerly Marks & Spencer and before that Iceland ) was once the location of the Swan Hotel, where a balcony still is today and from which local election results were announced.

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