ABAN COURT WITH ATTACHED WALL GATEWAY AND GATE

ABAN COURT WITH ATTACHED WALL GATEWAY AND GATE, MALVERN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103837
Date first listed:: 01-Apr-1982
List Entry Name:: ABAN COURT WITH ATTACHED WALL GATEWAY AND GATE
Statutory Address:: ABAN COURT WITH ATTACHED WALL GATEWAY AND GATE, MALVERN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103837
Date first listed:: 01-Apr-1982
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: ABAN COURT WITH ATTACHED WALL GATEWAY AND GATE
Statutory Address 1:: ABAN COURT WITH ATTACHED WALL GATEWAY AND GATE, MALVERN ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ABAN COURT WITH ATTACHED WALL GATEWAY AND GATE, MALVERN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cheltenham (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 94058 22085

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SW MALVERN ROAD 630-1/12/512 (West side) 01/04/82 Aban Court with attached wall, gateway and gate (Formerly Listed as: MALVERN ROAD (West side) Aban Court)

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House, now flats, and attached wall, gateway and gate. c1834 with additions and alterations including C20 infill. Architects RW and C Jearrad. Ashlar over brick with tile roof and ashlar lateral stack to main range which breaks forwards to full height and rear stacks. Tudor Gothic style. Irregular U-plan originally, now with infill. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, main range with attic, 3 bays, range to right with 2 bays. Main range: ground-floor loggia has 4-centred arches, now partly infilled. Entrance within, 2 part-glazed panelled doors to angle .First floor has two 2-light mullion windows, that to left blocked, otherwise 1/1 sashes and 2-light blind window with ogeed hoodmould and facestops to projecting stack, 'ABANCOURT' above in Gothic script. Attic has blind window with hoodmould to stack. Range to right has projecting gabled range to front with replacement bow window to ground floor and 3-light mullion window with 1/1 sashes and hoodmould; kneelers. All openings in chamfered surrounds. To left gable end a 2-storey bay. Garden facade: 2 storeys, 5 first-floor windows, the 2 windows to left have gables over. From left ground floor has two 4-light mullion and transom windows with chamfered surrounds and hoodmoulds; three 2-light mullion and transom windows; casements. First floor has two 3-light mullion windows with shields above and hoodmoulds; three 2-light mullion windows; all 1/1 sashes in chamfered surrounds. INTERIOR: open-well staircase with iron alternately embellished and stick balusters, upper hall has oval skylight; original joinery includes 6-panel doors; plasterwork includes egg-and-dart cornices. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: walls to right for approx 5m with chamfered copings, ramped up to end, and to left for approx 8m to pedestrian gateway with 2 openings; between them is an entrance to loggia: double 8-panel studded doors, in 4-centred, chamfered architrave, cavetto-moulded cornice and low parapet with copings.

HISTORICAL NOTE: part of the Lansdown development initiated by Pearson Thompson. Built together with Rokeby Home, Malvern Place (qv), the garden facades form a continuous design.

Listing NGR: SO9406122077

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.