Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9523SW PITTVILLE LAWN
630-1/6/669 (East side)
05/05/72 No.71
Malden Court and attached carriage
house

GV II

Villa and attached carriage house. 1838. Architect, Rowland
Paul and Sons of Cheltenham for Stubbs Wightwick JP, builder
Henry Haines. Set back from the road. Stucco over brick with
slate roof, brick and stucco left end stack with cornice.
Tudor-Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics to gables, 3 first-floor
windows. Left gabled bay breaks forward and has projecting
single-storey porch; further projecting bay set back to left
with ground-floor window, and with gabled carriage house
attached to left again. Stucco detailing includes hoodmoulds
over windows to ground and first floors, tooled first-floor
band. 8/8 sashes where original with wider chamfered
glazing-bar at centre reading as mullion, in chamfered
reveals. Entrance: flight of roll-edged steps to solid porch
has buttresses with offsets and surmounting pinnacles, double
panelled 4-centre-arched doors in chamfered 4-centred
surround; surmounting shield, frieze and cornice, raised to a
peak over arms. Overhanging eaves and gables with cusped
barge-boards. Gabled end, south, with battlemented splay bay.
Rear has further battlemented splay bay with 8/8 sashes.
Gabled carriage house at left has 2/2 sash and hoodmould and
with single light to gable.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as part of the development of this area
undertaken for Joseph Pitt in 1825-42, the general layout by
the architect John Forbes. SY Griffith's 'History of
Cheltenham and its Vicinity' (1838) records that the house was
'designed by Paul & Sons' and 'built by (Henry) Haines & Son'.
A fine example of a Tudor Gothic villa, its setting
benefitting from the complete boundary walls (qv) in matching
style. Malden Court occupies a corner site at the junction of
Pittville Lawn and Central Cross Drive.
All the villas on Pittville Lawn form a distinguished
architectural group.
(Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 14-17,72;
Griffith SY: History of Cheltenham and its Vicinity: 1838-;
The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale
and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 152).

Listing NGR: SO9546323242

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667126

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