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
24088
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/10/2000
Date of Amendment
10/10/2000
Name of Property
Old Barn at Mathern Palace
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Mathern
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Mathern
Easting
352340
Northing
190834
Street Side
Location
In the centre of Mathern village about 50m south east of the Church of St Tewdric and situated in front of Mathern Palace.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A small C17 barn converted into a two storey house in the 1890s by H Avray Tipping and his architect Eric Francis. The oak mullioned windows are a characteristic feature of their work.
Exterior
A barn built of roughly coursed local rubble with a pantile roof. The entrance (courtyard) elevation is in four bays of two storeys. From the left, a plain doorway with partly glazed door under an oak lintel with a 3-light oak framed mullioned leaded lattice casement window above; 5-light window as before with oak cill and lintel, one on either floor but having slightly different glazing patterns; plain doorway with partly glazed door under stone lintel; 3-light casement window on each floor as before. All these openings can be seen to have been introduced into the existing wall. Plain roof with external stack on the right gable and a central one in bay two. Gable end with 2-light windows. The street elevation retains the central cart doors which are the only real visual evidence of this building's agricultural origins. This has a 5-light mullioned window above and below, small lean-to extension to right.
Interior
Interior not available at the time of resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as a sensitive barn conversion by Arts and Crafts architects H Avray Tipping and Eric Francis, and for its group value with the adjacent Mathern Palace.
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