Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
15/06/1992
Date of Amendment
10/11/2005
Name of Property
Octagonal Shelter 4 in the grounds to north of Pen-y-fal
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Location
High up near the north-west corner of the apartments near the fifth Shelter.
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
History
Contemporary with the early C20 expansion of the hospital (qv Pen-y-fal Apartments) which was first built in the mid C19 as the Joint County Lunatic Asylum. Considerable new building was done here in 1901-4 and 1910 designed by Edward Johnson. Public Health Acts and reforms had created the requirement to provide institutionalised people with the opportunity for outdoor recreation. These shelters are probably prefabricated designs bought from a catalogue. They were commonly provided in Asylums at this time and were also used in all kinds of public parks and promenades. This particular shelter was moved to its present site as part of the redevelopment as housing in 2001-5. It stood originally at the far north end of the site in an area now covered by new houses.
Exterior
Spa or seaside style octagonal timber shelter roofed with new broadly corrugated steel sheeting and with finial carried on corner pillars, the top halves of which are in the form of turned balusters; boarded fretted valances to eaves. Within there are four bays formed by half-glazed screens with glazing bars; these have planked benches and splayed sides midway between the main pillars; flat ceiling.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Pen-y-Fal Hospital and the associated historic items.
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