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
25029
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/03/2001
Date of Amendment
19/03/2001
Name of Property
Box Bush Lodge at entrance to The Hendre
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Whitecastle
Town
Monmouth
Locality
Hendre
Easting
345626
Northing
214564
Street Side
S
Location
Set in its own garden on the W side of present the main entrance drive to The Hendre.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Mid C19, by T.H.Wyatt. The Hendre was the home of the Rolls family who were pioneers of aviation and motoring.
Exterior
A gate lodge, in a theatrically-eclectic style. Coursed sandstone rubble, red tiled roofs with red cockscomb ridge tiles and a lead-clad flèche. A relatively small single-storey building, it has a symmetrical E facade distinguished by the boldness of it disproportionately emphatic features. In the centre is a very wide semi-circular verandah formed by wooden posts with arch-bracing to the eaves of a large conical roof with a finial, under which is a bowed porch which has a board door in the centre, with Gothic-style strap hinges, and a chamfered 1-light window on either side. The roof has a tall flèche in the centre with chevron ribbing and a delicately-enriched urn finial, and emphatic crow-stepped gable parapets terminating in ball finials. Each gable wall has a semi-circular bay window with a semi-conical roof, and there is a rectangular service wing to the rear.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its idiosyncratic architectural character, and as part of a distinctive series of buildings associated with the Hendre estate.
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