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
2879
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
07/08/1992
Date of Amendment
31/01/2001
Name of Property
The Warrage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Mitchel Troy
Town
Raglan
Locality
Raglan
Easting
342674
Northing
209130
Street Side
Location
Situated approximately 2km NE of Raglan on the E side of the by-road to Tregare. The Farmhouse faces S with farmyard ranges to N.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Later C17 farmhouse altered in C19. Historically part of the 2000 acre estate which surrounded Raglan Castle. The name is said to mean a place where army horses were kept, as Colonel Kyrle of Walford is said to have kept a force here prior to the 1646 siege of Raglan Castle. Renovated in late C20 with yellow ochre limewash render to front.
Exterior
Farmhouse, colourwashed rendered rubble stone with steep hipped roof of imitation slates. Large centre rendered axial ridge stack. Two storeys, 4-window range, 3 first floor triple casements and one small square 4-pane window over door in second bay. Ground floor has cambered-headed windows, triple casement left of door, casement pairs right, that to far right smaller. Board door in C20 open gabled porch. Outbuilding each side, that to left single-storey, also rendered and colourwashed with red brick left end stack. Two casement pair windows at varied heights. Range to right is taller, a lofted stable, rubble stone with one casement pair to left. Windows are all renewed with red tile C20 sills.
Four-window exposed rubble rear with timber lintels and brick voussoirs to segmental-headed ground floor windows; the windows beneath the chimney light the staircase; hooded entrance to right with boarded door.
Interior
Stone flagged floors. Central chimney with chamfered wooden lintel to W fireplace and chamfered stone lintel to E. Heavy chamfered beams with stepped hollow moulded stops. Stud-and-panel partition wall. C17 former outside wooden ovolo-moulded window exposed in former stable block, which also has pegged roof trusses.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantial later C17 house with surviving interior features. Historical associations with Raglan Castle.
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