Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
86882
Building Number
18
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 pinecone finials
Address
18 Fosterville Crescent
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Abergavenny
Town
Abergavenny
Locality
Abergavenny
Easting
330225
Northing
213896
Street Side
E
Location
On a west facing slope at the south end of the town.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
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.
Exterior
This house has had the chimney on the left return truncated below the eaves.
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.
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