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
2809
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/10/1988
Date of Amendment
19/03/2001
Name of Property
Nos.1-4 (consec) Cottage Homes
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Whitecastle
Town
Monmouth
Locality
Rockfield
Easting
348645
Northing
214308
Street Side
SW
Location
Set back in their own gardens on the SW side of the road, in a detached position approximately 150m S of Rockfield Lodge.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Strong stylistic similarities with Swiss Cottage, Rockfield (q.v.), indicate that the designer was almost certainly Sir Aston Webb. Foundation stone laid by Lord Llangattock of The Hendre dated 1906.
Exterior
A row of 4 almshouse-style single-storey cottages in a striking Arts-and-Crafts Tudor style, built of snecked rubble and some close-studded half-timbering, with freestone dressings and graduated slate roof. The design is symmetrical, with a central through-passage passing between paired cottages which have short coupled back extensions, the low façade articulated by a tall porch in the centre with a feature-gable and end bays with semi-circular gables, all slightly projected and breaking through the eaves. The central porch is canted and has a moulded segmental arch at eaves level, a large carved plaque above displaying the arms of Lord Llangattock, and a coped parapet raised over the centre as a gable with ball finials. Each of the end bays has a 3-light stone mullioned window and a wide semi-circular gable with ball finials. The intermediate ranges have doorways and windows in reflected symmetry (d-w-w-d-w and w-d-w-w-d), the doorways with Tudor-arched stone architraves and board doors, and the windows all of 3 wooden mullioned lights set in studwork. Set against the wall beneath each outer pair of windows is an original bench with railed and arcaded back. The roof has 2 pairs of ridge chimneys and at each gable is an extruded chimney stack. The through-passage is lined with close-studding and leads through to the rear, which has a pair of large gables and windows set in studwork like the front.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a sophisticated and attractive exercise in Arts-and-Crafts style; part of an extensive building programme initiated on the Hendre estate in the late C19-early C20.
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