Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
15/06/1992
Date of Amendment
10/11/2005
Name of Property
Octagonal Shelter 1 in the grounds to south-west of Pen-y-fal
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Location
Between the main (south-west) elevation of Pen-y-fal Apartments and the drive, surrounded by lawns. This example is set into a tarmacked path on a terraced section towards the south-east end.
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
History
Contemporary with the early C20 expansion of the hospital (qv Pen-y-fal Apartments) which was first built in the mid C19 as the Joint County Lunatic Asylum. Considerable new building was done here in 1901-4 and 1910 designed by Edward Johnson. Public Health Acts and reforms had created the requirement to provide institutionalised people with the opportunity for outdoor recreation. These shelters are probably prefabricated designs bought from a catalogue. They were commonly provided in Asylums at this time and were also used in all kinds of public parks and promenades.
Exterior
Spa or seaside style octagonal timber shelter roofed with new broadly corrugated steel sheeting and with finial carried on corner pillars, the top halves of which are in the form of turned balusters; boarded fretted valances to eaves. Within there are four bays formed by half-glazed screens with glazing bars; these have planked benches and splayed sides midway between the main pillars; flat ceiling.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Pen-y-Fal Hospital and the associated historic items.
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