Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gatehouse to Ty Mawr
Mitchel Troy, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II* listed building in Dingestow, Monmouth, Mitchel Troy, Monmouthshire, designated on 19 November 1953.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 November 1953
- Locality
- Dingestow
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Mitchel Troy
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.78518, -2.81641
- Cadw reference
- 2093
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 233 Monmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the N side of the minor road between Dingestow and Tregare, about 2km W of Dingestow church
History
Probably built in the mid- to late-C17; milkhouse probably C19.
Exterior
Built of red handmade brick with a steeply-pitched cross-gabled stone slate roof, this little building has a jewel-like quality.
It has a square single-cell plan and is 2-storeyed, the lower storey entirely occupied by a very shallow basket-arched entry. The S front, in which the bricks are of uniformly warm red hue and are laid in Flemish bond, has a segmental-headed 2-light casement to the upper floor, with renewed diamond-lattice glazing; an S-shaped tie-plate above the left corner of the archway; and moulded barge-boarding with an apex pendant (an extremely unusual survival). The brickwork of the W side and the rear is less uniform in colour and bonding than the front, but the gables have bargeboarding and pendants like the front. The W side has a segmental-headed loft doorway approached by a flight of steps at right-angles. The upper floor of the rear has a segmental headed window containing what appears to be an original wooden 2-light window, with a saddle bar in one light.
(The E side is now covered by the milkhouse attached to the brick barn to the E, q.v.)
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its rarity and intrinsic architectural quality.
Nearby in the register
- Brick barn to E of Ty Mawr Gatehouse, with attached milkhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Ty Mawr, with attached outbuildingDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn opposite Ty Mawr GatehouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Blue Door FarmhouseDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.