86885

19  

II  

Designated  

10/11/2005  

10/11/2005  

House, including garden walls with terracotta dressings and pinecone finials  

19 Fosterville Crescent  

Monmouthshire  

Abergavenny  

Abergavenny  

Abergavenny  

330234  

213892  

E  

On a west facing slope at the south end of the town.  

 

 

Built in c1890-1900 and probably by Thomas Foster, builder and his brother Edwin Foster, an architect and surveyor who lived in Bella Vista in Monmouth Road just across from Fosterville Crescent. Some of the houses in Fosterville Crescent are late C19 in appearance but the redevelopment of the street continued until at least 1910. These houses have been very little altered since building.  

This house has retained the chimney on the right return. Rear elevation not inspected.  

Interior not seen at resurvey.  

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.  

Nos. 18 and 19 Fosterville Crescent Built of yellow brick with caramel coloured terracotta quoins and window and door dressings, red tile roof with yellow brick stacks. Semi-detached pair with the main range to the street and a gabled wing to the rear of the outer bay of each house. Two storeys and attics, with three windows to each house. The pair has a three storey gabled wing at either end with a canted bay to two storeys and a single window with a heavy keyed surround in the gable above. The bays are terracotta with rusticated surrounds with stiff-leaf capitals and a stiff-leaf band to the upper apron. Plain sash windows with keyed heads, tiled roof with eaves on brackets. Fretted bargeboards to the gables. The centre range has paired windows on the ground floor and recessed balconies above. These have wrought iron railings and a door and a sash window. All these windows are 2 over 1 pane sashes, the doors are part glazed. The return elevations are three bay with a large gabled porch with a wood framed oriel to the left and other single sashes, the top floor one in a gablet. The roof has ridge tiles, spike finials to the gables and tall stacks, one on the ridge between the houses, one on either return wall; the one to the left is truncated at eaves level, and one at the rear of each wing, roof-lights to the front. Each house has a rubble street wall with rounded terracotta capping, square piers with pinecone finials (one missing to left) and decorative cast iron gates.