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
05/02/1998
Date of Amendment
05/02/1998
Name of Property
Carriage House at Maindiff Farm
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Llantilio Pertholey
Location
Forming one side of the farm court and attached to both the farmhouse and the barn.
History
A carriage house dating from c1840 and thus associated with the house previous to the present house and probably not a part of the Crawshay Bailey estate improvements (estate purchased 1843).
Exterior
Red brick with a Welsh slate roof. Long two storey range with blind rear wall backing onto a row of modernised cottages. The ground floor has eight stilted arched carriage openings of which three remain open and five have been closed with a brick wall and a 5-light window above. There are also two doorways and a window, 4 + 4 casement in a elliptical head. There are four carriage openings to either side of a central round arched access to the steps up to the first floor.
The first floor has eight windows 6 + 6 casements, and an imitiation painted 3 x 3 window.
Interior
Interior not available at the time of resurvey (June 1997).
Reason for designation
Included as an example of a mid C19 carriage house, also having group value with the farmhouse and barn which form a partly enclosed courtyard.
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