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
25056
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/03/2001
Date of Amendment
19/03/2001
Name of Property
Croesvaen
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Llangattock-Vibon-Avel
Town
Monmouth
Locality
Hendre
Easting
345705
Northing
214650
Street Side
Location
On the north side of the road, set back in its own garden approximately 80m E of the present main entrance to The Hendre.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built as the estate manager's house to The Hendre in the 1890s, and designed by Aston Webb.
Exterior
A substantial stone-built house in Arts-and-Crafts Tudor style. Built of snecked rock-faced rubble with red tiled roofs and stone chimneys. Irregular plan with coupled gabled wings to the rear of the front range and a service wing (perhaps formerly offices) extended from the NW angle. It is 2-storeyed except for the service wing, which is 1-storeyed. The S facade is a sturdily articulated 4-bay composition, the 1st bay treated as a slightly-projecting tower and the 4th as a gabled receding wing, both these rising above eaves level. In the 3rd bay is a large round-headed arch to a recessed porch which is partly enclosed at the front by the side wall of a short flight of steps to a doorway on the right-hand side of the inner wall. To the left of the arch is a 3-light mullioned window (with some renewed masonry), and under the eaves at 1st floor are mullioned windows of 3, 2 and 3 lights, the last of these larger. The tower-bay to the left has a 2-light window at ground floor, a 1-light window at 1st floor, and a parapet with raised corners and ball finials (that to the right missing). The gabled bay to the right has a low 5-light window at ground floor, a stepped mullioned window above, and gable coping with ball finials. There is one chimney on the ridge at the junction with this wing, and 3 others to the rear. The E side of the house has a large rectangular bay window to the front bay and a small canted bay weindow to the rear bay, both mullioned and transomed, a doorway between these, and 2 small dormer gables above. The W side of the building, which is more utilitarian in character, has (inter alia) a doorway at the junction between the front range and the service wing, and above this, set back in the angle to the rear of the main range, a rectangular extrusion which has a 5-light mullioned window and a convex lead-clad roof with a finial. The 1-storey service wing, which breaks out slightly and has parapets concealing the roof, includes 2 mullion-and-transom windows.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a sophisticated essay in free Jacobean style by a leading architect; one of a distinctive series of estate buildings designed by Aston Webb for the Hendre estate.
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