Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wall, Railings and Gateways at Model Cottages
Mathern, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 10 October 2000
- Locality
- Mathern
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Mathern
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.62018, -2.69404
- Cadw reference
- 24069
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
In the centre of Mathern new village about 600m north of the Church of St Tewdric.
History
The front garden wall and gatepiers built as a part of a group of estate workers' cottages in 1891 and having group value with them and with the water-tank shelter in the garden of New Cottage. Rebuilt circa 1960 when road was widened.
Exterior
Sandstone block wall with dressed coping and wrought iron railings. Two gateways with square piers with conical caps. The wall continues capped by railings and with regular piers to the right, while to the left it is returned as a plain stone wall.
Reason for designation
Included for group value as a part of a well designed cottage row built in 1891.
Nearby in the register
- Model CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Model CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Model CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Model CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.