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Latitude: 51.8275 / 51°49'39"N
Longitude: -2.79 / 2°47'24"W
OS Eastings: 345651
OS Northings: 214616
OS Grid: SO456146
Mapcode National: GBR FH.W0JR
Mapcode Global: VH79B.LBDC
Plus Code: 9C3VR6H5+2X
Entry Name: Post Office and Forge Cottage
Listing Date: 19 March 2001
Last Amended: 19 March 2001
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 25026
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300025026
Location: Set back in generous front gardens on the N side of the road, approximately 100m E of Hendre crossroads.
County: Monmouthshire
Town: Monmouth
Community: Llangattock-Vibon-Avel (Llangatwg Feibion Afel)
Community: Whitecastle
Locality: Hendre
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Tagged with: Cottage
Dated 1893, and built for The Hendre estate of the Rolls family who were pioneers of aviation and motoring.
A pair of 2-storeyed estate houses built of snecked sandstone with timber-framed porches and red tiled roofs, reproducing the general design of Fairoaks (q.v.) and Pen-y-cwm (q.v.) but doubled as a unified and symmetrical range, with a projecting gabled bay at each end and a pair of smaller gables in the centre; plus a small side-wing with a porch at the W end. In the angle with each of the outer bays is a gabled timber-framed and slate-roofed porch with corbelled semicircular outer arch and open square-panelled timber detail to the gable, round-arched openings to the sides, an inner side bench and a part-glazed door; and tucked under the eaves above each is very shallow 2-light mullioned window. Each has a canted bay window to the outer gabled bay with wooden transomed glazing and hipped tiled roof, a transomed 3-light window to the inner bay, and a cross-window at 1st floor above these (those in the centre rising into dormer gables). Between the upper and lower windows of the gabled outer bay each has a square plaque carved with a quatrefoil containing Lord Llangattock's monogram "Ll" and the date 1893. The eaves and gables oversail, the gables having plain bargeboarding with finials, and in the centre of the roof is a chimney stack with 6 tall octagonal chimney pots. Attached to the W return wall of the left house is a short single-storey side wing which has a lower but wider porch in the same style as the others, protecting a doorway and a wall letterbox.
Included as a well-detailed pair of estate cottages, part of an important series of buildings built by the Hendre estate in the 1890s; and for group value with the nearby horse trough and with Box Bush Lodge opposite.
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