Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
87197
Building Number
11
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/12/2005
Date of Amendment
09/12/2005
Name of Property
Tre-Elidyr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Llanover
Town
Abergavenny
Locality
Llanover
Easting
331222
Northing
208134
Street Side
Location
One of an informal grouping of cottages around the War Memorial Green in the centre of Llanover village.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
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.
Exterior
Built of squared, uncoursed, rock faced red sandstone rubble with a weatherboarded extension and stone tiled roofs. Small double depth cottage in a C17 style Arts-and-Crafts manner. Single storey and attic, two bays, with doorway to left of centre. Plank door with small gabled porch, the drip behind indicates that the porch is a later addition. Two light lattice casement with dripmould over, the same windows also in two gabled dormers. Steeply pitched roof with stack to each gable.
Right return gable has two more windows on each floor.
Left return gable has one window on each floor and a stair window at the half-landing. A single storey weatherboarded wing is attached with WC and coal-store etc.
The rear elevation has a 3-light and a 2-light window as before and two more dormers, small windows to extension.
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.
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