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Monmouth Lodge

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8261 / 51°49'33"N

Longitude: -2.7483 / 2°44'53"W

OS Eastings: 348524

OS Northings: 214426

OS Grid: SO485144

Mapcode National: GBR FJ.W4X7

Mapcode Global: VH86T.9CYG

Plus Code: 9C3VR7G2+CM

Entry Name: Monmouth Lodge

Listing Date: 19 March 2001

Last Amended: 19 March 2001

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 25040

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300025040

Location: Built in the acute angle formed by the junction of the drive with the B4233, approximately 200m SE of the centre of Rockfield village.

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Monmouth

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

Community: Whitecastle

Locality: Rockfield

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

Tagged with: Gatehouse Scottish Baronial architecture

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History

Designed by Aston Webb, and dated 1896. Scottish baronial style said to have been at the wish of Georgiana Maclean who had married John Allen Rolls of The Hendre.

Exterior

A former gate lodge to The Hendre. Walls of random rubble, roofs of red tiles with gable parapets and fleur-de-lis ridge tiles. Irregular plan with a short main range parallel to the road (but not facing it), a rear crosswing and a porch-tower in the S angle thus formed. One-and-a-half and 2 storeys in a theatrically-eclectic style. Striking composition when seen by visitors arriving from the Monmouth direction as their carriages forked off the public road. This consists of the E gable-end of the main range with the porch-tower set back on its S side. The gable wall has an unusual single-storey semi-circular "turret" at ground floor level, with a steep semi-conical tiled roof and a chamfered 1-light window in each of its 3 cardinal sides; a pair of narrow chamfered 1-light attic windows flanking the apex; and a steep crow-stepped parapet with a ball finial on the apex. The set-back porch-tower to the left, which is 2-storeyed, has steps up to a round-headed arch containing a square-headed doorway with the date 1896 in the tympanum, a small chamfered 1-light window at 1st floor, a corbelled and embattlemented parapet and a tall pyramidal flèche with triangular lucarnes and a finial. The N and S gables of the rear wing match the front gable. The front and rear ranges each have a large chimney with a corbelled cap.
(The design was almost exactly repeated for North Lodge in Hendre (q.v.)
The item forms a good group with its associated gateway (q.v.).

Reasons for Listing

Included as a picturesquely composed and detailed lodge, part of a fine set of buildings on the Hendre estate.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II Gateway next to Monmouth Lodge
    At the entrance to the drive to Rockfield House, approximately 200m SE of the centre of Rockfield village.
  • II Nos.1-4 (consec) Cottage Homes
    Set back in their own gardens on the SW side of the road, in a detached position approximately 150m S of Rockfield Lodge.
  • 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 Steps Farmhouse (aka Steppes Farm)
    Set back above the N side of the road, approximately 0.8km W of the centre of Rockfield village.
  • II Former cider-mill to S of Steps Farmhouse
    On the bank above the road immediately the E side of the entrance to Steps Farm, approximately 0.8km W of the centre of Rockfield village.

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