11 Nevill Street, Rother House
About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information
| Address: | 11 Nevill Street, Rother House |
| Present Occupier: | Martyn Prowel Gartsides |
| Present Owner: | |
| Ground Floor: | Solicitors Offices |
| Other Floors: | |
| Date when first used by present occupier: |
About the Building
Listed Building Grade II No. 2450 Grade II listed on 7 May 1952 see https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300002450-11-nevill-street-abergavenny
Gazebo at rear of no 11 Listed Building Grade II No. 2451 Grade II listed on 1 November 1974 see https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300002451-gazebo-at-rear-of-no-11-nevill-street-abergavenny
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.
Building refurbished 2024.
Recent History
2024 : Martyn Prowel Gartsides. Change of name. Building underwent extensive restoration. Solicitors temporarily moved out to no.15; moved back to no.11 when work was completed
Previous Occupiers
| Year | Name | Detail | Source |
| 1988 | Gartside, Harding & Davies | Solicitors | ALHS |
| 1981 | Red Dragon Aluminium Ltd | Windows | ALHS |
| 1969-1978 | C Price & Son | Builders Offices | ALHS |
| 1942 | Malcolm Beverley Burton & Mrs Agnes Burton | Dentist/ Artist/ Residence | |
| 1937 | M B Burton Gardners, Heywood, Grey & Wagstaffe Vale of Usk Development Association |
Dentist Solicitors Also Abergavenny Chamber of Trade and Abergavenny Licensed Victuallers Association |
Kelly |
| 1934 | M B Burton Gardners, Heywood, Grey & Wagstaffe Vale of Usk Development Association |
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/ 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 |
| 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 | 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 | Mer & Croc |
| 1871 |
Henry Taylor
|
Furniture Broker | Kelly |
| 1862 | Edward Morris (at no 2 in 1865) | Tea, grocer, baker & confectioner | Morris & Co |
| 1858 | Edward Morris (at no 2 in 1865) | Tea, grocer, baker & confectioner | Slater |
| 1850 | Tom Gabb |
Attorney, Clerk to the magistrate
|
Pigot |
| 1844 | Tom Gabb |
Attorney, Clerk to the magistrate
|
Slater |
| 1835-38 | Tom Gabb |
Resident
|
Pigot |
| 1822 | Mr William Thomas Davies (listed as Thomas Davies in directory) |
Attorney
|
Pigot |
| 1810 | Mr William Thomas Davies (listed as Thomas Davies in directory) |
Attorney
|
Pigot |
| Before 1810 | Mr John Allpress | And before him Rev John Williams Clerk | Deeds |
Other Information
1948: Rother House, dentist
1972 : Also Bardolin (part of L&N Securities) [source: ALHS]
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