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
23983
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/09/2000
Date of Amendment
08/09/2000
Name of Property
Model Farm, Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Devauden
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Wolvesnewton
Easting
344447
Northing
198666
Street Side
Location
About 2km south west of the Church of St Thomas a Becket approached down a long cul-de-sac lane off the south side of the road to Usk.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Early/mid C19 model farm built for the Duke of Beaufort. It is late Georgian in appearance but it does not appear on the Tithe Map which was registered in 1841, although it will have been surveyed up to five years earlier. From its appearance the farm must date from very soon after the survey. Model Farm was part of the estate sold by the Duke of Beaufort in 1900 to Henry Simpson of Tredean and later to Sir Edward Curre of Itton Court.
Exterior
Built of coursed red sandstone rubble with hipped Welsh slate roof. Square two storey block with the roof hipped each way and a central valley over the staircase. Three bay entrance front with central arched panelled door with fanlight. This is flanked by 3-light iron framed casements in elliptical heads, three 2-light ones above. Side elevation of three windows, mostly 2-light, one 3-light, some single light, a few are non-matching replacement timber windows. The rear elevation has the service door and less formally arranged windows.
Interior
Only the ground floor was seen at re-survey. This is plainly finished but demonstrates that the planning remains unchanged. Stick baluster stair in the centre of the house.
Reason for designation
Included as a little altered late Georgian farmhouse which has group value with the other buildings of the model farm, the roundhouse and the mill house.
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