Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Water-tank shelter in garden at New Cottage
Mathern, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Mathern, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, designated on 10 October 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 10 October 2000
- Locality
- Mathern
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Mathern
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.62005, -2.69371
- Cadw reference
- 24070
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)
- 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)
- 1897 · 250 Chepstow (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1905 · 250 Chepstow (Hills) (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 in the front garden of New Cottage.
History
An ornamental small shelter for water tank built as a part of a group of estate cottages in 1891 and having group value with them and with the front garden wall.
Exterior
Hexagonal sandstone dwarf wall with dressed coping. This carries six posts with curved braces which support a bell-cast red tile roof with a lead spike finial.
Reason for designation
Included as a part of a well designed cottage group built in 1891.
Nearby in the register
- Model CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Model CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wall, Railings and Gateways at Model CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Model CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.