Malvern House And Attached Courtyard Wall

NOTTINGHAM

SK54SE MAPPERLEY ROAD 646-1/4/403 (North West side) 30/10/79 No.41 Malvern House and attached courtyard wall (Formerly Listed as: MAPPERLEY ROAD Malvern House)

GV II

House, now offices, and attached courtyard wall. Dated 1874. For TB Gutts, lace manufacturer. Sandstone ashlar, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, moulded eaves, coped gables. Windows are mainly original plain sashes in various Gothic openings with stone mullions. 2 storeys plus attics and central tower. 3 x 5 windows. Central porch flanked by gabled wings, with a central tower above and behind. Square central porch has a traceried parapet, and pointed arched opening with shafts. Matchboard double door with Gothic fanlight. Above the porch, a 2-light window, and above again, a flat topped gabled dormer with a graduated 4-light pointed arched window. Projecting wing, to right, has a semicircular bow window, 2 storeys, 5 lights, with trefoil arched frieze and conical roof. Shouldered lights to ground floor, Tudor arched above. Gabled wing to left has a square bay window, 2-lights, with a pediment containing the monogram TBG. Above, 2 segment-arched lights with polychrome heads, with a statue between them. Above again, a sundial, then a graduated 3-light window. Square tower has canted corners, modillion eaves, and coped side wall stacks. Pointed arched window, 2-lights, to the front. Pyramidal roof with fishscale bands and cast-iron crest. Right return has to left 2 triangular bay windows divided by an external moulded stack. To right, a gabled projection with various triple windows on each floor, then a recessed bay, then a canted, hipped projection with an external stack. Left return has 2 large gables with massive bay windows, 3 lights, and traceried balustrades. Above, shouldered windows, 2 lights, with polychrome heads, and above again, quatrefoils in circles. At the rear, courtyard wall, rock-faced stone with stone coping. 2 pairs of gate piers and 2 intermediate piers, with pyramidal caps and ball finials.

Listing NGR: SK5734241518