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Gardener's Cottage at High Glanau

A Grade II Listed Building in Mitchel Troy, Monmouthshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7635 / 51°45'48"N

Longitude: -2.7286 / 2°43'42"W

OS Eastings: 349816

OS Northings: 207450

OS Grid: SO498074

Mapcode National: GBR JK.00CH

Mapcode Global: VH870.NYD0

Plus Code: 9C3VQ77C+9H

Entry Name: Gardener's Cottage at High Glanau

Listing Date: 22 February 1989

Last Amended: 27 September 2001

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 2815

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300002815

Location: Above and to NE of the house which is set in its own wooded grounds. The cottage lies between the upper and lower drives.

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Monmouth

Community: Mitchel Troy (Llanfihangel Troddi)

Community: Mitchel Troy

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

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History

Contemporary with the house, 1922-3, and in a similar free Arts and Crafts style. The architect of High Glanau was Eric Francis in collaboration with H.Avray Tipping; the latter laid out the gardens in a style similar to that of Gertrude Jekyll.

Exterior

Single storey rubble cottage with slate roof and axial rubble chimney stack with cornice; wide swept eaves with pronounced stepped kneelers. Entrance offset to right with part glazed door flanked by 2 and 3-light small pane casement windows. Similar cross frame window with stepped cornice and relieving arch to left gable end facing gardens. Doorway to rear.

Reasons for Listing

Included as an integral part of the ensemble at High Glanau.

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    Approached down wooded drive; the house is set in its own grounds. To NE of house.
  • II* High Glanau
    Off the W side of the road, approached along a wooded drive on Trellech Hill, and set in its own grounds. On a levelled site with sloping lawns to either side and spectacular views to west.
  • II* Terraces at High Glanau
    Off the W side of the road, approached along a wooded drive on Trellech Hill, immediately on the W side of the house.
  • II Garden Wall and Pergola at High Glanau
    To S of the house reached along a broad, tree-lined path, formerly with herbaceous borders, divides the lawns and informal gardens from the kitchen garden and greenhouses.
  • II Greenhouse at High Glanau
    Approximately 5m S of Garden Wall to S of High Glanau
  • II Glanau Farm, Barn to S of
    About 20m S of Glanau Farmhouse, in an elevated position on the W facing slope of hills overlooking Cwmcarvan; reached by a track which runs S past High Glanau and then angles back sharply northward,
  • II Glanau Farm
    A little over 5km SSW of Monmouth, in an elevated position on the W facing slope of hills overlooking Cwmcarvan; reached by a track which runs S past High Glanau and then angles back sharply northward
  • II Barn at Loysey
    About 1000m to the north west of the Church of St Nicholas approached down a track off the west side of the Monmouth Road (B4293).

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