Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden House at Llanvihangel Court
Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II* listed building in Llanvihangel Crucorney, Abergavenny, Crucorney, Monmouthshire, designated on 9 January 1956.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 9 January 1956
- Locality
- Llanvihangel Crucorney
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Crucorney
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.87796, -2.97631
- Cadw reference
- 1945
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
About 100m south east of Llanvihangel Court.
History
This building was listed as a 'Guardhouse' but it was evidently a summer house/ garden house which stood at the corner of a walled formal garden. The c1680 painting in the house shows it in situ with a pair to the north and a third one at the corner of the eastern terrace. It was probably built in the early C17, fairly soon after the 1599 rebuilding of the house.
Exterior
Stone rubble base about 1m in height with red brick in Flemish bond above, eight sided roof with overhanging eaves in stone tiles, rising to a point which has a wooden finial with a ball at the top. The circular drum is supported by three raking stone buttresses which have been added at some time, but the way they are separating from the building suggests that they are unnecessary. Plain doorway with 4 + 4 casement above. Window at rear, unglazed with four vertical openings. There is also a slit window in the brickwork.
Interior
The interior is plain with a brick bench under the slit window. Wooden floor to the room above with trap. Roof structure with cross frame and central post.
Reason for designation
Included at grade II* as a rare example of a brick garden house of the early C17 which has strong group value with all the historic buildings at Llanvihangel Court.
Nearby in the register
- Stable Block at Llanvihangel CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden Walls, Terraces and Gatepiers at Llanvihangel CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llanvihangel CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cider House and Cottage at Llanvihangel CourtAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.