Latitude: 51.8235 / 51°49'24"N
Longitude: -3.009 / 3°0'32"W
OS Eastings: 330555
OS Northings: 214354
OS Grid: SO305143
Mapcode National: GBR F6.W68B
Mapcode Global: VH796.SFMG
Plus Code: 9C3RRXFR+9C
Entry Name: Octagonal Shelter 1 in the grounds to south-west of Pen-y-fal
Listing Date: 15 June 1992
Last Amended: 10 November 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 2872
Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
ID on this website: 300002872
Location: Between the main (south-west) elevation of Pen-y-fal Apartments and the drive, surrounded by lawns. This example is set into a tarmacked path on a terraced section towards the south-east end.
County: Monmouthshire
Town: Abergavenny
Community: Abergavenny (Y Fenni)
Community: Abergavenny
Locality: Pen-y-fal
Built-Up Area: Abergavenny
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Contemporary with the early C20 expansion of the hospital (qv Pen-y-fal Apartments) which was first built in the mid C19 as the Joint County Lunatic Asylum. Considerable new building was done here in 1901-4 and 1910 designed by Edward Johnson. Public Health Acts and reforms had created the requirement to provide institutionalised people with the opportunity for outdoor recreation. These shelters are probably prefabricated designs bought from a catalogue. They were commonly provided in Asylums at this time and were also used in all kinds of public parks and promenades.
Spa or seaside style octagonal timber shelter roofed with new broadly corrugated steel sheeting and with finial carried on corner pillars, the top halves of which are in the form of turned balusters; boarded fretted valances to eaves. Within there are four bays formed by half-glazed screens with glazing bars; these have planked benches and splayed sides midway between the main pillars; flat ceiling.
Included for group value with Pen-y-Fal Hospital and the associated historic items.
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