Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
18285
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/03/1997
Date of Amendment
24/06/1999
Name of Property
Malpas Court
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Malpas
Town
Locality
Easting
329879
Northing
191310
Street Side
Location
About 400m W of A4042, in area of modern housing, to SW of school.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
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.
Exterior
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.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a substantial early C19 house in the Tudor style, by a well-known architect of regional importance.
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