Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden Walls of Underwood
Portskewett, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Portskewett, Newport, Monmouthshire, designated on 20 September 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 September 2000
- Locality
- Portskewett
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Portskewett
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.59124, -2.72648
- Cadw reference
- 24006
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1897 · 250 Chepstow (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1905 · 250 Chepstow (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In Crick Road about 50m north of the junction with Main Road.
History
This is the wall of an C18 walled garden which once belonged to the nearby Rectory (qv The Old Rectory). It now encloses an early C20 house.
Exterior
Wall of roughly coursed limestone rubble which is about 2.5-2.75m in height. It forms a rectangle of about 40 x 60m.
Reason for designation
Included for its strong group value with The Old Rectory and Manor Farmhouse which both stand close by.
Nearby in the register
- Manor Farmhouse and Manor CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Old RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
- St. Mary's Churchyard Cross, PortskewettCrossunder 1 mi
- Cross in Churchyard of the Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.