Aban Court With Attached Wall Gateway And Gate

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)

GV II

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