Closed around 2001,this lovely old house has suffered badly due to metal thieves stripping the lead off the roof allowing the elements to soak in and reclaim this house back to nature.
History:Number 61,the present Malvernbury, by A Hill Voysey, 1907, is set below the road between Hardwicke House and the junction with College Road.
The original house was Dr Johnson's water cure establishment. Dr Edward Johnson (1801 - 1867), who had moved from London, where his children were born, ran a water cure establishment first at Ellerslie (see below) and later at Malvernbury, and his son Walter took over on his father's death.
An 1887 edition of the BMJ lists doctors registered in Worcestershire and confirms indeed that a Dr W Johnson was at Malvernbury in Great Malvern.
Dr Walter Johnson married in 1867, South Tidworth Hampshire, Mary Ann Sophia Young the daughter of the Rector of Risley in Bedfordshire by whom he had four children.
The 1881 census records the couple living at 'Bury' House in Abbey Road which was almost certainly Malvernbury.
When Mary died in 1888, Walter Johnson retired to Kensington in London to live near his younger brother Horace Edward Johnson MD.
In 1907, Malvernbury was rebuilt, possibly for solicitor, William Dyson Perrins, grandson of the founder of the Worcestershire Sauce business - in 1911 his wife Kate Perrins and son Meredith Dyson Perrins were living there.
A plaque records that Florence Nightingale had been a visitor between 1857 and 1860.
Malvernbury later became a nursing home and has now been purchased by a developer. It is anticipated the house will be modernised and converted into apartments and other houses will be built in the grounds.