Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stone Wellhouse opposite New Inn Farm
Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cross Ash, Monmouth, Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, designated on 12 May 1961.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 12 May 1961
- Locality
- Cross Ash
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Skenfrith
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.87909, -2.87218
- Cadw reference
- 2108
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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)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (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
Approximately 1km NW of Cross Ash post office, on the N side of a lane leading to Grosmont.
History
Undateable from structural evidence, perhaps built at the same time as the house opposite (which, though much altered, appears to C18 in origin), but any date between the early C18 and mid C19 would be credible.
Exterior
Properly speaking, a holding tank rather than a well, being situated on a slope below a spring which originally supplied it. Now disused, and at the time of the survey so heavily overgrown with vegetation as to be almost invisible. Built of coursed slabby sandstone rubble. Square or rectangular in plan, approximately 3-4m on each side, facing SW. Steeply-pitched pyramidal construction approximately 4m high, the front wall fallen but otherwise intact.
Interior
Inaccessible, but the owner reported that it has a vaulted roof and contains a tank approximately 2m deep.
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusually large example of a distinctive and unusual building type; one of a group of similar buildings in this locality, with Well house to N of Graig House (q.v.) and Well-house on E side of lane opposite village hall (q.v.).
Nearby in the register
- Former coach-house and screen wall to W of Graig HouseTransportunder 1 mi
- Well-house to N of Graig HouseWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Graig House (aka Great Graig) including terrace to S and EDomesticunder 1 mi
- Well-house on E side of lane, opposite village hallWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.