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
87196
Building Number
10
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/12/2005
Date of Amendment
09/12/2005
Name of Property
Tre-Elidyr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Llanover
Town
Abergavenny
Locality
Llanover
Easting
331202
Northing
208156
Street Side
Location
One of an informal grouping of cottages around the War Memorial Green in the centre of Llanover village.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built c1925 as part of the development Tre-elidyr designed by Alfred Powell. It was built as a memorial to WWI and to the son of Lord Treowen and others of the village who died in the conflict. The building is externally unaltered.
Exterior
Built of squared, uncoursed, rock faced red sandstone rubble with a weatherboarded extension and stone tiled roofs. Small double depth cottage in a C17 style Arts-and-Crafts manner. Single storey and attic, two bays, with doorway to right of centre. Plank door with small gabled porch, the drip behind indicates that the porch is a later addition. Two light lattice casement to left with dripmould over, the same windows also in two gabled dormers. Steeply pitched roof with stack to each gable.
left return gable has two more windows on each floor.
Right return gable has one window on each floor and a stair window at the half-landing. A single storey weatherboarded wing is attached with WC and coal-store etc.
The rear elevation has a 3-light and a 2-light window as before and two more dormers, small windows to extension.
Interior
Interior not seen at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as being a part of a planned War Memorial housing development around a green, which was designed by Alfred Powell and remains almost unaltered in detail.
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