Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SW MALVERN ROAD 630-1/12/516 (East side) 14/12/83 The Grange (Nos.1 and 2) and Grange Wing and attached balustrade to rear (Formerly Listed as: MALVERN ROAD (East side) The Grange)

GV II

Villa, now 3 dwellings and attached balustrade to rear. 1838. By RW and C Jearrad, for Rev Francis Close. Stucco over brick with slate roof, tall gault brick ridge stacks and iron window guards and balustrade. Central hallway plan with asymmetrical facades. Domestic Tudor style. EXTERIOR: entrance facade has 2 storeys with attics to outer gabled ranges which project and have linking ground-floor porch, 3 first-floor windows. Tripartite windows with 4/4 between 2/2 sashes. Windows to left part have external Venetian shutters. All windows in chamfered reveals and with hoodmoulds. Attics have 2/2 sashes; further attic roof dormer to centre has 2 cusped lights with quatrefoil in gable. Central entrance in chamfered, 4-centred surround with roll and cavetto-moulded hood and decoration to spandrels; part-glazed, 9-panel door with sidelights and shaped overlight. Kneelers and shaped copings to gables. Garden facade: 2 storeys with attic to projecting gabled bay at left, 3 first-floor windows. From left, a tripartite window with 4/4 between 2/2 sashes, some pink-glass panes; tall 6/6 sash and rectangular bay window with 1/1 sashes; first-floor has tripartite window with 4/4 between 2/2 sashes, two 3/6 sashes; attic has 2/2 sash, all (except bay) with hoodmoulds; bay has cornice. Kneelers and copings to gable. Skylight. Rear retains 6/6 sashes. INTERIOR: to inner hall are 4-panel, part-glazed studded 4-centred doors in chamfered surround. To rear a dogleg staircase with stick balusters and run-out handrail; otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: external slatted shutters at left, to front facade. Window box to left, first-floor window to garden facade has arcade and X-motif balusters. To rear a balustrade to steps with scrolled lozenge motif. HISTORICAL NOTE: the cost of building was met by public subscription. Rev Francis Close was appointed to the living of the parish Church of St Mary, Church Street (qv) 1826-56 by

the evangelical Simeon Trustees; Tennyson dubbed him the Pope of Cheltenham. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 31,33,39; Rowe G: Illustrated Cheltenham Guide 1850: Cheltenham: 1845-1969: 33).

Listing NGR: SO9406222227

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