Ashgrove, 40, St Anns Road, Great Malvern

A Memory of Great Malvern.

See Ashgrove, on part of the hill known as the Hilly Piece, with commanding views over the town, to the left of the Priory in the 1871 picture.
The house was built in 1809 for the Revd Stillingfleet, Prebendary of Worcester Cathedral and remained as shown, until the main sitting room and two bedrooms above, to the right of the house, 'disappeared' in the late 1930's. I tried to identify the reason for the loss of these rooms, believing it may have been a fire in the 1930's, but I could never find any records supporting such an event. A history of the house was lodged in the Worcester record office in 1979, but this doesn't include mention of the birth of a daughter, Belinda Catharine Wood, who was born in 1980.