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Nos.1-4 (consec) Cottage Homes

A Grade II Listed Building in Llangattock-Vibon-Avel, Monmouthshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8251 / 51°49'30"N

Longitude: -2.7466 / 2°44'47"W

OS Eastings: 348643

OS Northings: 214311

OS Grid: SO486143

Mapcode National: GBR FJ.WC9Y

Mapcode Global: VH86T.BDV8

Plus Code: 9C3VR7G3+29

Entry Name: Nos.1-4 (consec) Cottage Homes

Listing Date: 12 October 1988

Last Amended: 19 March 2001

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 2809

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300002809

Location: Set back in their own gardens on the SW side of the road, in a detached position approximately 150m S of Rockfield Lodge.

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Monmouth

Community: Llangattock-Vibon-Avel (Llangatwg Feibion Afel)

Community: Whitecastle

Locality: Rockfield

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

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History

Strong stylistic similarities with Swiss Cottage, Rockfield (q.v.), indicate that the designer was almost certainly Sir Aston Webb. Foundation stone laid by Lord Llangattock of The Hendre dated 1906.

Exterior

A row of 4 almshouse-style single-storey cottages in a striking Arts-and-Crafts Tudor style, built of snecked rubble and some close-studded half-timbering, with freestone dressings and graduated slate roof. The design is symmetrical, with a central through-passage passing between paired cottages which have short coupled back extensions, the low façade articulated by a tall porch in the centre with a feature-gable and end bays with semi-circular gables, all slightly projected and breaking through the eaves. The central porch is canted and has a moulded segmental arch at eaves level, a large carved plaque above displaying the arms of Lord Llangattock, and a coped parapet raised over the centre as a gable with ball finials. Each of the end bays has a 3-light stone mullioned window and a wide semi-circular gable with ball finials. The intermediate ranges have doorways and windows in reflected symmetry (d-w-w-d-w and w-d-w-w-d), the doorways with Tudor-arched stone architraves and board doors, and the windows all of 3 wooden mullioned lights set in studwork. Set against the wall beneath each outer pair of windows is an original bench with railed and arcaded back. The roof has 2 pairs of ridge chimneys and at each gable is an extruded chimney stack. The through-passage is lined with close-studding and leads through to the rear, which has a pair of large gables and windows set in studwork like the front.

Interior

Not inspected.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a sophisticated and attractive exercise in Arts-and-Crafts style; part of an extensive building programme initiated on the Hendre estate in the late C19-early C20.

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Other nearby listed buildings

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    At the entrance to the drive to Rockfield House, approximately 200m SE of the centre of Rockfield village.
  • II Monmouth Lodge
    Built in the acute angle formed by the junction of the drive with the B4233, approximately 200m SE of the centre of Rockfield village.
  • II Rockfield School
    At north end of village; at right angles to the road with playground to front.
  • II* Swiss Cottage
    Reached from B4233 at the S end of Rockfield; approximately 0.5km along the tree-lined former drive to the Hendre. Secluded setting beside brook.
  • II Church of St Cenhedlon (aka Rockfield Church)
    Near the centre of Rockfield village, in a wooded hollow where the road skirts the edge of a westward meander of the River Monnow.
  • II* Pentwyn
    To W of B 4347, about 100 metres NW of Rockfield Church.
  • II Croft-y-bwla
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  • II Steps Farmhouse (aka Steppes Farm)
    Set back above the N side of the road, approximately 0.8km W of the centre of Rockfield village.

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