11 Nevill Street, Rother House
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11 Nevill Street, Rother House
Gartside Solicitors
Offices
Before and After Images
1979/80
2016
About the building
Listed Building Grade II No. 2450The house has Tudor foundations but an Adams style front. It is rusticated, in stucco, with long and short champhered quoins. The cornice has a fluted frieze and bishop’s thumb moulding. A lead rainwater head and down pipe leading from the gutter which would have been either behind the parapet or under the cornice.
There is a beautiful mahogany door, with brass locks and handles. An elegant staircase with polished aok stairs. Old coat pegs in the kitchen similar to those in Craswell Church. Elliptical arches. A vaulted cellar with gracious stone steps down to it.
The garden has a terrace at the end of which stood two gazebos, the right hand one was used by Mrs Beverley Burton. From the terrace, you could watch the tennis courts across the back lane (7 Corners Lane). The tennis courts belonged to the Burtons and in about 1952, they gave them to Harold Road School so that they could be dug up and used to teach the children gardening. There was a tunnel from under the terrace to the back lane.
Recent history
1948: Rother House, dentist1969 – 1978 C Price & Son, builders offices. 1972, also Bardolin (part of L & N Securities).
1981: Red Dragon Aluminium Ltd Windows
1988: Gertside, Harding & Davies, Solicitors
Previous occupiers
Year
Name
Detail
Source
1942
Dentist/Artist/
Residence
1937
M B Burton
Gardners, Heywood, Grey & Wagstaffe
Value of Usk Development Association
Dentist
Solicitors
also Abergavenny Chamber of Trade
and Abergavenny Licensed Victuallers Association
Kelly
1934
” ” ” ”
as above and Ministry of Labour Offices
Kelly
1930
M B Burton
Gardners, Heywood, Grey & Wagstaffe
also Abergavenny Chamber of Trade
Car/Npt & Dis
1926
Gardners, Heywood, Grey & Wagstaffe
also County Court
Kelly
1923
Gardners, Heywood, Grey & Wagstaffe/Henry E Lyons
as above and/ jeweller & residence
Kelly
1920
Gardners, Heywood, Grey & Wagstaffe/G D Grey
as above
Kelly
1914
Gardners, Heywood, Grey & Wagstaffe/Illtyd Gardner (residence)
County Court
Kelly
1910
Illtyd Gardner (residence)/Abergavenny Chamber of Trade
and County Court
Kelly
1909
County Court/solicitors
Kelly
1906
Illtyd Gardner (residence)/Gardners & Heywood
County Court/solicitors
Kelly
1901
Edgar Frederick Gardner (residence)
Gardner’s Solicitors
Kelly
1895
Illtyd Gardner
William Dyne & Samuel Hopkin Steel
residence
Physicians & Surgeons
Kelly
1891
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Kelly
1884
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Kelly
1879
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Thacker
1877
John Harris Conway Junior (his father, John Harris Conway, senior, was a wholesale & retail grocer at 7 Cross St around 1840-70)
Brick, Lime, Coal & Salt merchants
Owen
1875
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Mer & Croc
1871
Henry Taylor
Furniture Broker
Kelly
> 1868
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1865
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1862
Edward Morris (at no 2 in 1865)
tea, grocer, baker & confectioner
Morris & Co
1858
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Slater
1850
Tom Gabb
Attorney, Clerk to the magistrate
Pigot
1845
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Pigot
1844
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Slater
1841
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Slater
1835
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Pigot
1835-38
Tom Gabb
resident
Pigot
1834
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Car/Npt & Dis
1822
Mr William Thomas Davies (listed as Thomas Davies in directory)
Attorney
Pigot
1810
before 1810
” ”
Mr John Allpress
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and before him Rev John Williams Clerk
Pigot
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