Malvern House And Attached Courtyard Wall

Malvern House is a late 19th-century building, dated 1874, originally designed as a house and now used as offices. It was commissioned for TB Gutts, a lace manufacturer. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs. It is designed in the Gothic Revival style.

The exterior features a plinth, moulded eaves, and coped gables. The windows are primarily original plain sashes set within various Gothic openings with stone mullions. The house has two storeys plus attics, and a central tower. It has a five-window front, with gabled wings flanking a central porch. The porch has a traceried parapet and a pointed arched opening with shafts, containing a matchboard double door with a Gothic fanlight. Above the porch is a two-light window; above that, a flat-topped gabled dormer with a graduated four-light pointed arched window. A projecting wing to the right has a semicircular bow window, two storeys high with five lights, a trefoil arched frieze, and a conical roof, with shouldered ground-floor lights and Tudor arches above. A gabled wing to the left incorporates a square bay window with two lights, surmounted by a pediment displaying the monogram TBG. Above this are two segment-arched lights with polychrome heads, with a statue between them, and a further graduated three-light window above that. The square tower has canted corners, modillion eaves, and coped side wall stacks, and features a pointed arched two-light window to the front. It has a pyramidal roof with fishscale banding and a cast-iron crest. The right return has two triangular bay windows to the left, separated by an external moulded stack. To the right is a gabled projection containing various triple windows on each floor, followed by a recessed bay and a canted, hipped projection with an external stack. The left return has two large gables with massive three-light bay windows and traceried balustrades; above are shouldered windows with two lights and polychrome heads, and above that, quatrefoils in circles.

At the rear is a courtyard wall constructed of rock-faced stone with stone coping. It includes two pairs of gate piers and two intermediate piers, each topped with pyramidal caps and ball finials.