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
2894
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/07/1993
Date of Amendment
08/09/2000
Name of Property
Itton Village Institute
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Devauden
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Itton
Easting
349123
Northing
196081
Street Side
NE
Location
About 500m south east from Itton Common on the road to Chepstow (B4293). At the roadside with a grassed and railed forecourt. Situated with a farm access to the right and Itton Church and Itton Court to the south.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in 1901 and designed by Guy Dawber, the well known late C19/early C20 country house architect who was closely associated with the Arts and Crafts movement and was a leading member of the Art Workers Guild, also sometime President of the RIBA. This village hall was built for the Curre family of Itton Court.
Exterior
Arts and Crafts village hall typical of the Cotswold vernacular style for which Dawber is best known, the character of which has been described as 'friendly gravity'. Single storey and L-plan with rubble elevations and stone tile roof, now partly replaced with tiles at the rear, the slightly swept eaves are also stone tiled with kneelers; stone plinth. Distinctive square stone chimney stack set forward at the angle between hall and cross wing. Small pane, mostly camber headed, casements including tall 2-light transomed windows to the gable ends; 4 and 6-light windows to the two front elevations and 3-light windows to the central gable on the west side. The porch, with its stone tile hung gable, projects from the right hand corner of the gable end facing the road; side entrance to the right with inner door and the rectangular opening to the south unusually has an inset timber balustrade. To the right of the porch is a dressed stone plaque inscribed 'E & A Cuerre Sept 11 1888- 1913'; this commemorates the Silver Wedding of Edward and Augusta Curre of Itton Court (qv).
Interior
The interior was not seen at the time of listing or at resurvey, but the hall is now ceiled at collar level and has steeply raked struts - above this may remain the secondary collars and arches between vertical struts all of which are found at the similar Village Hall at St Arvans; this is also by Guy Dawber but now enlarged and altered. Fireplace to right hand wall.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good Arts and Crafts building that has retained its original character and is a Welsh example of the work of the architect Guy Dawber.
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