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
25026
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/03/2001
Date of Amendment
19/03/2001
Name of Property
Post Office and Forge Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Whitecastle
Town
Monmouth
Locality
Hendre
Easting
345651
Northing
214616
Street Side
N
Location
Set back in generous front gardens on the N side of the road, approximately 100m E of Hendre crossroads.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Dated 1893, and built for The Hendre estate of the Rolls family who were pioneers of aviation and motoring.
Exterior
A pair of 2-storeyed estate houses built of snecked sandstone with timber-framed porches and red tiled roofs, reproducing the general design of Fairoaks (q.v.) and Pen-y-cwm (q.v.) but doubled as a unified and symmetrical range, with a projecting gabled bay at each end and a pair of smaller gables in the centre; plus a small side-wing with a porch at the W end. In the angle with each of the outer bays is a gabled timber-framed and slate-roofed porch with corbelled semicircular outer arch and open square-panelled timber detail to the gable, round-arched openings to the sides, an inner side bench and a part-glazed door; and tucked under the eaves above each is very shallow 2-light mullioned window. Each has a canted bay window to the outer gabled bay with wooden transomed glazing and hipped tiled roof, a transomed 3-light window to the inner bay, and a cross-window at 1st floor above these (those in the centre rising into dormer gables). Between the upper and lower windows of the gabled outer bay each has a square plaque carved with a quatrefoil containing Lord Llangattock's monogram "Ll" and the date 1893. The eaves and gables oversail, the gables having plain bargeboarding with finials, and in the centre of the roof is a chimney stack with 6 tall octagonal chimney pots. Attached to the W return wall of the left house is a short single-storey side wing which has a lower but wider porch in the same style as the others, protecting a doorway and a wall letterbox.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a well-detailed pair of estate cottages, part of an important series of buildings built by the Hendre estate in the 1890s; and for group value with the nearby horse trough and with Box Bush Lodge opposite.
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