11 Nevill Street, Rother House

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Address:
Present Occupier:
Present Owner:
Ground Floor:
Other Floors:
Date when first used by present occupier:

11 Nevill Street, Rother House
Martin Powell Gartsides

Solicitors Offices

Before and After Images

 

1979/80

2016


 

About the building

Listed Building Grade II No. 2450

The 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, dentist

1969 – 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

2024 : Martin Powell Gartsides.   Change of name.    Building being restored.  Solicitors temporarily moved to no.15

 


 

Previous occupiers

Year

Name

Detail

Source

1942

Malcolm Beverley Burton & Mrs Agnes Burton

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

Kelly

1884

Kelly

1879

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

”              ”

”      ”       ”      ”

Mer & Croc

1871

Henry Taylor

Furniture Broker

Kelly

> 1868

1865

1862

Edward Morris (at no 2 in 1865)

tea, grocer, baker & confectioner

Morris & Co

1858

”        ”

”     ”      ”       ”

Slater

1850

Tom Gabb

Attorney, Clerk to the magistrate

Pigot

1845

Pigot

1844

”          ”

”    ”      ”

Slater

1841

Slater

1835

Pigot

1835-38

Tom Gabb

resident

Pigot

1834

Car/Npt & Dis

1822

Mr William Thomas Davies (listed as Thomas Davies in directory)

Attorney

Pigot

1810

before 1810

”         ”

Mr John Allpress

and before him Rev John Williams Clerk

Pigot

Deeds



 


 

Other information

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