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
87198
Building Number
12
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/12/2005
Date of Amendment
26/06/2006
Name of Property
Tre-Elidyr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Llanover
Town
Abergavenny
Locality
Llanover
Easting
331201
Northing
208065
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. This pair in particular shows the influence of Gimson on the design. Tre-Elidyr 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
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.
Group Description
Nos. 12 and 13 Tre-Elidyr
Built of roughly squared rock faced local red sandstone rubble with stone slate roofs. Plain Cotswold type Arts-and-Crafts manner. Paired two storey houses with a cross-wing at either end of the range.
The main elevation faces the road with the rear elevation to the Memorial Green. Each house has the main living room and bedroom in an outer projecting wing and an entrance in the recessed centre where the houses join. A 3-light casement window on each floor in the wing, string course right across above, vent in gable, also with string over. Plank door with small 2-light casement with string course over in gable above. All windows are small paned leaded casements. Steeply pitched roof with stack to gable end and large shared one to centre. Gable ends blind but with attached weatherboarded single storey wing containing ground floor bathroom.
Rear elevation is all in line with three windows on either floor and a stair window at the half-landing., windows are 1 and 2-light casements . Large gables on the outside and small paired ones in the centre, all with strings and vents as before.
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