Malden Court And Attached Carriage House

Malden Court is a villa with an attached carriage house, built in 1838. The design was by Rowland Paul and Sons of Cheltenham, and constructed by Henry Haines. It is set back from the road. The villa is of stucco over brick construction with a slate roof, and a brick and stucco stack with a cornice on the left end. The architectural style is Tudor-Gothic.

The villa is two storeys high with attics to the gables, featuring three first-floor windows. A gabled bay projects forward on the left side, incorporating a single-storey porch. A further bay is set back to the left, featuring a ground-floor window, and a gabled carriage house is attached to the left again. Stucco detailing includes hoodmoulds over ground and first-floor windows, and a tooled first-floor band. The original windows are 8/8 sashes, with a wider chamfered glazing bar at the centre visually resembling a mullion, set in chamfered reveals. The entrance features a flight of roll-edged steps leading to a solid porch with buttresses, offsets, and surmounting pinnacles. The porch has double panelled, 4-centre-arched doors in a chamfered 4-centred surround, surmounted by a shield, frieze and cornice raised to a peak over arms. Overhanging eaves and gables have cusped barge-boards. A gabled end, facing south, has a battlemented splay bay. The rear of the villa also includes a further battlemented splay bay with 8/8 sashes. The gabled carriage house to the left has a 2/2 sash with a hoodmould and a single light to the gable.

The interior of the building has not been inspected. The villa was constructed as part of the development of the area undertaken for Joseph Pitt between 1825 and 1842, with the general layout by architect John Forbes. According to SY Griffith's ‘History of Cheltenham and its Vicinity’ (1838), the house was designed by Paul & Sons and built by Henry Haines & Son. Malden Court occupies a corner site at the junction of Pittville Lawn and Central Cross Drive, and is part of a distinguished group of villas along Pittville Lawn, benefiting from complete boundary walls in a matching style.