Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
2814
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/02/1989
Date of Amendment
27/09/2001
Name of Property
Terraces at High Glanau
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Mitchel Troy
Town
Monmouth
Locality
Mitchel Troy
Easting
349808
Northing
207400
Street Side
W
Location
Off the W side of the road, approached along a wooded drive on Trellech Hill, immediately on the W side of the house.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Built 1922-3 contemporary with house which was designed by Eric Francis in collaboration with H Avray Tipping, a leading early C20 architectural patron and historian. Tipping laid out the informal gardens in a style similar to that practised by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll.
Exterior
The garden front overlooks a stone paved terrace linked by central flight of steps; tall piers to base, formerly with classical urns (stolen c.1990, when the property was on the market) . Further steps then lead down to the lower terrace where the piers formerly had large ball finials (likewise stolen); these are repeated, two to either side, providing a division between the terraces and the lawns. To the centre projects an octagonal area with sunken pond and low perimeter wall retaining the bases only of further classical garden ornaments. At the S end of the house the terrace steps up and is screened to E by the stone wall with half round recesses to both sides. This wall incorporates a stone basin which forms an ornamental incident in the hydraulic system. This supplies water to the fountain from a reservoir in the woods above the house via underground pipes to this point, and thence by further underground piping to the fountain below, whence it flows a quarter of a mile further downhill to a hydraulic ram. (This is a Blake Hydram Type A, manufactured by John Blake Ltd of Accrington - which pumps it up again - a device recently restored to full working condition by the current owner). The sheltered area faces down the 'avenue' formerly with herbaceous borders towards the greenhouse and kitchen garden.
Group value with other listed items at High Glanau.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as part of Francis and Tipping's original layout at High Glanau, and for group value with the house.
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