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Latitude: 51.6162 / 51°36'58"N
Longitude: -3.0141 / 3°0'50"W
OS Eastings: 329879
OS Northings: 191310
OS Grid: ST298913
Mapcode National: GBR J5.9DJG
Mapcode Global: VH7B5.PMXV
Plus Code: 9C3RJX8P+F8
Entry Name: Malpas Court
Listing Date: 21 March 1997
Last Amended: 24 June 1999
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 18285
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300018285
Location: About 400m W of A4042, in area of modern housing, to SW of school.
County: Newport
Community: Malpas
Community: Malpas
Built-Up Area: Newport
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Tagged with: House
Built 1834 - 1838 for Thomas Prothero of Newport: architect T H Wyatt, perhaps inspired by Llantarnam abbey nearby. The house replaced the previous house nearer to main road. The historian Sir Joseph Bradney married Florence Prothero of Malpas Court in 1927.
C19 country house in early Tudor style. Built of brown rock-faced stone, stone chimneys, mullion and transom windows. Two storeys plus attics. Main block faces NE with recessed service wing to NW, forming L-plan. Gabled entrance block flanked by octagonal buttresses with pinnacles; gable pinnacle surmounted by bird, heraldic shield in gable. First floor has oriel window. Entrance doorway with hoodmould, Tudor arch; panelled door. To the left, a polygonal formerly castellated tower with narrow windows: turret-like polygonal chimney. To the right, recessed block has two-storey gabled bay with three-light first floor window over splayed bay window; narrow windows each side. To the right of this, set back, a two storey service wing, four windows, two gablets. Three-window SE elevation of main block has two pinnacled gables. First floor central doorway flanked by three-light windows: on ground floor, semi-octagonal porch with elliptical arches with spandrels containing carved foliage with the initials ‘C’ and ‘P’. Doorway has hoodmould and overlight; four-light mullion and transom window to each side. To the SW, the main block is of three bays, advanced gabled end bays; ground floor splayed window to left (with three-light window over) between end bays, ground floor advances as splayed bay window. Two storey service wing with gablets to left.
Listed as a substantial early C19 house in the Tudor style, by a well-known architect of regional importance.
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