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
2901
Building Number
1
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/11/1993
Date of Amendment
10/10/2000
Name of Property
The Tithe Barn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Mathern
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Mathern
Easting
352055
Northing
190893
Street Side
Location
About 50m southeast of Moynes Court approached up a lane off the road through Mathern immediately to the south of the M48.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably built c1609 by Bishop Francis Godwin of Llandaff when he moved to Moynes Court from his nearby residence of Mathern Palace. The heraldic plaque over the main entrance to the house has his coat of arms and is dated 1609 to record his rebuilding of the pre-existing, probably C16, country house. However, the site's origins are medieval with a motte to south and gatehouse to north. The barn was in poor condition at the time of the listing inspection and has been entirely refurbished and converted into two houses at the time of the resurvey inspection.
Exterior
The left part contained the threshing floor, hence the boarded barn doors (replaced c1995 by glazing), those on north west (cart entrance) side being taller than those to south east (cart exit) side. There is a single storey wing which has been added to the left c1995. This contains the entrance to No 1 and garages. Rear elevation not seen at resurvey.
Interior
Interior not available for inspection at the time of resurvey (October 1999) but the conversion of the barn into two houses has involved an inserted floor and it is said that the roof structure was entirely replaced at the time of conversion, c1995.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Moynes Court and for its importance as an altered but still characterful example of an early C17 tithe barn.
Group Description
1 and 2 The Tithe Barn
Long rubble former corn barn, now converted (c1995) into two houses. Tall Roman-tiled roof, fully replaced in c1995, presumably replacing a stone-slate roof at some time, but has been tiled for at least 150 years. Both main elevations have distinctive triangular ventilators, which are typical of south east Wales; also some standard slit vents, some blocked. The building was only partly seen at resurvey, the rear elevation description comes from the listing description of 1993.
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