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
23057
Building Number
11
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/03/2000
Date of Amendment
29/03/2000
Name of Property
Burton Homes
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Caerwent
Town
Newport
Locality
Caerwent
Easting
347166
Northing
190490
Street Side
Location
At the east end of Caerwent village about 50m north east of the Eastgate.
Description
Broad Class
Institutional
Period
History
These almshouses were built in 1913 by Colonel H Burton MD and Miss S E Burton. The Colonel, who had died in 1908, was an important local landowner living at The Slough farm, one of the two principal farms in Caerwent. The almshouses were intended as a memorial to him and were designed for twelve 'old and decrepit' women.
Exterior
Interior
Interior not available at time of resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as a good unspoilt range of early C20 almshouses and for their historic interest to the region.
Group Description
Nos 1-12 (consec), Burton Homes
Single storey almshouses built on a half-H plan with the courtyard open to the road. They are built of coursed squared rock-faced red sandstone rubbble with Bath stone dressings and a red tile roof. The chimneys have been rebuilt in blue engineering brick and the rear elevation is all brick. They are built in a style reminiscent of almshouses built in the C17 in East Anglia. There is a central hall with double plank doors under a 3-centred arch with roses and foliage carved in the spandrels. This is flanked by stone framed rectangular windows with oval frames within, and above is a plaque 'BURTON HOMES FOUNDED BY COLONEL HENRY BURTON M.D. AND MISS S.E.BURTON. ERECTED 1913'. Above this is a stone framed triple window with 4 : 6 + 6 : 4 panes, the central part with an arched head. Gabled roof with Jacobean finials to the kneelers and a small Bath stone apex decoration.
On either side of the centrepiece there are six houses, each with a 3-light mullioned window in a large gable and beside it a doorway with a timber porch. Each window light has 4 over 6 panes. Tall brick stack to each house. The two end houses on either side are in a wing brought forward to the road and these have a small window in the gable end. Each house has two further windows on the rear wall.
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