Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560652

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Recommended Books

• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)