Malvern House (No 5) And Lynton House (No 7)

SO85SW 620-1/3/425 05/04/71

WORCESTER MALVERN ROAD (East side) Nos.5 AND 7 Malvern House(No.5) and Lynton House (No.7)

GV II

Two houses, now offices. Probably late C18 with later additions and alterations including those of mid C19. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with hipped slate roof, brick stacks, party-wall stack to ridge and further stack to rear at left, both with oversailing courses and pots; stuccoed sills. T-plan with infil to rear at right; left house has hallway at right, house to right has central hallway. 2 storeys, +5 first-floor windows. 6/6 flush-frame, cambered-arched sashes throughout, the fourth window from left now blocked, all under cambered arches and with sills. Continuous dentil cornice over first floor, returning to left. Entrances: 6-raised-and-fielded-panel doors with fanlights (fanlight to right is blind), timber doorcases ave round-arched openings and open pediments on console brackets. Rear retains 8/8 and 6/6 sashes where original, tripartite window with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes to rear range, 4 blocked elliptically-arched openings. INTERIOR: retains original joinery including 4-panel doors; chamfered spine beam. Occupies an important site at the junction of Malvern Road and Bransford Road. Forms a group with No.1 Malvern Road (qv). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 335).