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
3050
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/10/1973
Date of Amendment
22/08/2003
Name of Property
Parkfield House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Graig
Town
Newport
Locality
Lower Machen
Easting
322821
Northing
188030
Street Side
Location
On the E side of the road N through Lower Machen village, opposite the gates to the churchyard.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Former Lower Machen National School established in 1834 by the Rev. C.A.S. Morgan of Machen House, vicar of the parish. An unusual design mixing simple Tudor to Gothic detail with Italianate hipped roofs and windows.
Exterior
Former church school established 1834, painted roughcast with ashlar dressings and imitation slates to hipped roofs. Taller rear schoolroom with low single-storey parallel domestic range across front. with hipped lean-to roof against side wall of schoolroom. Front range of 5 bays with ashlar quoins and chamfered surrounds to big casement-pair windows. Centre ashlar porch in Tudor style with shouldered coped parapet with centre shallow gable over shield with stag-head crest. Four-centred pointed arched doorway with sunk spandrel panels and double panelled doors. Schoolroom has 2 large yellow brick eaves stacks above front range roof and is said to have pointed windows to rear with centre gabled porch.
Interior
Interior not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual earlier C19 church school, with schoolroom fronted by domestic range, of architectural quality.
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