Latitude: 51.8275 / 51°49'38"N
Longitude: -3.0221 / 3°1'19"W
OS Eastings: 329660
OS Northings: 214812
OS Grid: SO296148
Mapcode National: GBR F5.W309
Mapcode Global: VH796.KBQD
Plus Code: 9C3RRXGH+X5
Entry Name: The Cloisters, including garden wall and door to road
Listing Date: 10 November 2005
Last Amended: 10 November 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 86888
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300086888
Location: Close to N side of the junction with Avenue and Old Hereford Roads and facing towards the sports ground on the opposite side of Pen-y-pound road.
County: Monmouthshire
Town: Abergavenny
Community: Abergavenny (Y Fenni)
Community: Abergavenny
Built-Up Area: Abergavenny
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Said to have been built in later C19 as St John's School. Shown as 'The Cloisters' on the First Edition OS map sheet VI, surveyed in 1880. Now divided into residential apartments.
Tall Victorian Gothic detached building in its own grounds. Two-storeys and attic, three bays including gabled wing forward to left. Coursed hammer dressed masonry with pale stone dressings including quoins, window and door surrounds. Steep slate roofs with panelled Gothic top to projecting stone stack on right (N) gable end. Pair of cut-down brick stacks to S elevation. Advanced wing has carved bishop (?) in pointed niche to attic; below are three- and four-light Tudor mullioned and transomed windows with rectangular dripmoulds. The main range has two-, three- and four-light similar windows with doorway under shallow pointed arch in angle.
Tall masonry garden wall to road with Gothic arched doorway under stepped parapet and with eroded shield in panel. Boarded door with strapwork hinges.
Included for its special architectural interest as a well-designed Gothic Revival building which has retained its character.
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