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
26233
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/02/2002
Date of Amendment
21/02/2002
Name of Property
Walnut Tree Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Llangybi
Town
Pontypool
Locality
Llangybi
Easting
337314
Northing
196626
Street Side
Location
Immediately to the east of the junction between the Usk-Caerleon road and Park Road In the centre of Llangybi village.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A probably early C17 house which was refurbished in the early C19 and extended at the south gable in the C20.
Exterior
The house is wholly rendered and painted, probably over local rubblestone, and has a Welsh slate roof. It is a single storey and attic building with an original 2-room plan and with another room added in line. The original entry was probably in the south gable and the present entry a C19 alteration. The east elevation has three windows and the entrance W : W : D : W. Modern door with gabled porch, plain casement windows. The upper floor has a wall dormer to the left in the extension and a smaller C19 dormer in the roof above the porch, both with wavy bargeboards and small paned casements. Steeply pitched roof with two ridge stacks, the one on the old left gable is the original one and the one on the right gable is a C19 addition. Rear elevation with 2 + 1 casement windows all with 2 + 2 pane casements.
Interior
Interior not available for inspection at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as a relatively little altered early C17 cottage which also has group value in the centre of Llangybi village.
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