Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
23829
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/07/2000
Date of Amendment
27/07/2000
Name of Property
Rock Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Llanelly
Town
Locality
Gilwern
Easting
324562
Northing
214712
Street Side
Location
Located on the E side of minor road leading from Dan-y-bont to Crickhowell Road, with gable end abutting road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Mid-later C19 villa. Rear extension under construction October 1999.
Exterior
Rock-faced and coursed red sandstone rubble construction. Slate roofs. Deep gables with decorative carved bargeboards. Gable chimneys on low plinths with paired diagonal shafts, both with one shaft truncated. Striking garden elevation of three bays and two storeys, the central rising an extra storey tower-like above ridge-level: this central section is rectangular in plan, projecting to front and rear, with angled corners, hipped roof with angled corners above jettied upper courses of masonry. Attic window of centre bay is 2:2:2 casement with arched lights. First floor cross-windows containing paired 8-pane sashes: centre window has shallow gable above with decorative carved bargeboard. Ground floor left and right windows are cross-windows with paired 4-over-6 sashes, Tudor hoodmoulds. Central four-centred doorway.
Interior
Interior not available for inspection at the time of resurvey (October 1999).
Reason for designation
Listed as a well preserved and unusually designed mid-later C19 villa.
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