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
24089
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/10/2000
Date of Amendment
10/10/2000
Name of Property
Courtyard House at Mathern Palace
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Mathern
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Mathern
Easting
352322
Northing
190847
Street Side
Location
In the centre of Mathern village about 50m south of the Church of St Tewdric.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A small late 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. The building has been reconverted in the 1980s.
Exterior
A barn built of roughly coursed local rubble with a pantile roof. The entrance elevation is largely obscured and has a door, a window and a small modern extension. Single storey with garret. Plain roof with external stack on the left and a coped gable to the left, the right hand gable is plain. The courtyard elevation has three 3-light mullioned leaded lattice casements with oak cills and lintels characteristic of Tipping's buildings. All these openings can be seen to have been introduced into the existing wall. The corner of the building is attached to the surviving jamb of the C15 entrance gateway to Mathern Palace.
Interior
The interior has been completely modernised in the 1980s. Three bay roof with principal rafters, but probably entirely renewed.
Reason for designation
Included as an interesting 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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