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.
Date of Designation
09/12/2005
Date of Amendment
09/12/2005
Name of Property
Tre-Elidyr
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Location
One of an informal grouping of cottages around the War Memorial Green in the centre of Llanover village.
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.
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. 14 and 15 Tre-Elidyr
Built of roughly squared rock faced local red sandstone rubble with stone slate roofs. Plain Arts-and-Crafts manner. Paired two storey double depth plan with a small service wing to rear.
The main elevation faces the path into the Memorial Green. Each house has a central doorway with gabled porch, a 3-light casement to the centre of the block and 2-light to the outside, all with dripmoulds over. Small 2-light half dormer above the door. All windows are small paned timber casements. Steeply pitched roof with small stack to gable end and large shared one to centre. Gable ends with 2-light window for front room on either floor. Small rear wing. Rear elevation not seen.
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