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
24333
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/10/2000
Date of Amendment
27/10/2000
Name of Property
Cider House and attached Outhouse at Upper White Castle
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Whitecastle
Town
Abergavenny
Locality
White Castle
Easting
338039
Northing
216682
Street Side
Location
Some 20m NW of the farmhouse at Upper White Castle, at upper end of a gently sloping farmyard.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
C19 lofted cider house, which appears on the Tithe Map of 1843.
Exterior
C19 cider house (left) with attached outhouse (right) in linear range. Rubble stone with slate roofs. Openings have segmental arched heads of stone voussoirs, and shallow stone sills. Cider house is two-storey. S front, far right, has a external stone stair which rises to boarded door of upper granary. To left, on first floor, are three square blocked openings. On ground floor (l t r) are: a wide doorway with boarded door flanked by narrow chamfered vent slits on each side, next a second wide boarded door, and then a partly-boarded window opening. The projecting wall of the adjoining granary stair has a flat headed doorway to narrow storage passage. To left is attached single-storey outhouse which has boarded door (right) and tall 2-light mullion window (left).
Interior
Loft of cider house is 5-bays and has C19 king post roof trusses with raking side struts.
Reason for designation
C19 Cider House and Outhouse having important group value with the C17 farmhouse at Upper White Castle, White Castle ruins and the other listed buildings at White Castle.
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