Malvern St James College
Malvern St James College, 15, Avenue Road, Malvern, WR14 3BA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082824
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Malvern St James College
- Statutory Address:
- Malvern St James College, 15, Avenue Road, Malvern, WR14 3BA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082824
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Malvern St James College
- Statutory Address 1:
- Malvern St James College, 15, Avenue Road, Malvern, WR14 3BA
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Malvern St James College, 15, Avenue Road, Malvern, WR14 3BA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Malvern
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 78363 45862
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 13 December 2022 to amend the description and add references to selected sources.
SO 74 NE
12/104
AVENUE ROAD (north side)
No. 15, Malvern St James College
(Formerly listed as Malvern Girls' College, AVENUE ROAD (North Side)
GV
II
1860, by E.W Elmslie. Formerly a railway hotel known as the Imperial Hotel it was among the first in England to be lit by 'incandescent gas' and to be equipped with all types of baths. Brine was brought specially by rail from Droitwich.
Four storeys and attics; red brick with stone dressings; banded slate roof. Includes paired and single windows, a three-storey oriel with candle-snuffer roof and a tower with pierced parapet. The windows have segmental heads and carved ornaments to cills. Moulded strings between storeys. Seven dormers with pointed gables. Doorway with arched dripmould with mask stops.
Listing NGR: SO7836345862
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 152021
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stanley Smith, Brian, The History of Malvern, (1978), 207
Other
The Worcestershire Chronicle 11 June 1862 p2.
The Worcestershire Chronicle 13 August 1862 p2.
The Illustrated London News 23 August 1862 pp.204-206.
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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