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
86793
Building Number
10
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/11/2005
Date of Amendment
10/11/2005
Name of Property
House, including garden walls with terracotta dressings and ball finials
Address
10 Fosterville Crescent
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Abergavenny
Town
Abergavenny
Locality
Abergavenny
Easting
330280
Northing
213877
Street Side
E
Location
On a west facing slope at the south end of the town.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Very early C20, perhaps 1905-10, still very much in the character of a late Victorian villa pair. Built as part of the development of Fosterville Crescent by Edwin Foster, architect and Thomas Foster, building contractor, who owned the land.
Exterior
This house has slightly changed fenestration and retains a tall chimney.
Rear elevation not inspected.
Interior
Interior not seen at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as part of a specially interesting c1900 housing development of definite character designed and built by the Fosters, a local family of architect and builder.
Group Description
Nos. 9 and 10 Fosterville Crescent
Built of red brick with caramel coloured terracotta quoins and dressings, natural slate roofs with red brick stacks. Semi-detached villa pair. Three storeys, set high over a cellar. The two houses have paired gables to the front with one bay to each and a cross-wing at the rear with further gables at either end. The front gables each have a two storey canted bay in terracotta, 2 over 1 pane sashes flanked by 1 over 1, some of the glazing has been changed from the original. The bays have rusticated pilasters, keystone heads to the sashes, aprons decorated with bands of stiff-leaf and castellated tops, all in terracotta. There are Venetian windows with small paned glazing in the gables, again framed in terracotta. Plain bargeboards, cross finials to the gables, steeply pitched roofs with ridge tiles and one tall brick stack remaining to No. 12. Returns with external stack and single windows behind. Cross wings with single sash facing forward on two floors and again on the elevation to the gables with a smaller one on the second floor, finial as before. The entrances are in the angles. Rear elevation not seen.
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