Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
24097
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/10/2000
Date of Amendment
10/10/2000
Name of Property
Front Wall and Entrance Gates of Mathern House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Mathern
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Mathern
Easting
352397
Northing
190977
Street Side
Location
In the centre of Mathern village about 150m north east of the Church of St Tewdric and opposite Mathern Lodge.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C19 entrance gates with flanking walls built to enhance the approach to Mathern House (qv). It does not appear on the tithe map of 1839 but must have been built about this time.
Exterior
Rendered and painted wall of very unusual design. The wall has a double convex bow with central entrance gates and in the centre of each bow is a foot gate. The wall has piers at either end and is otherwise topped by wrought iron spear-head railings wihich are repeated in the gates.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a very unusual early C19 garden wall which has group value with the adjacent Mathern House and Mathern Lodge.
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