Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mounton House Cottages
Mathern, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 10 October 2000
- Locality
- Mounton
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Mathern
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.63367, -2.70195
- Cadw reference
- 24076
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
About 150m east of Mounton House.
History
Part of the layout of ancilliary buildings designed for Mounton House by H Avray Tipping and Eric Francis in 1912.
Exterior
Constructed of squared limestone rubble with tiled roofs. A two storey cottage row of 1:7:1 bays, the outer bays are set forward and gabled, and have 3-light mullioned windows on each floor. The range between has three doors and four windows on the ground floor arranged D:WW:D:WW:D, all 2-light windows, and above are a 3-light window at either end and a 7-light one in the centre. Roof with three large stone stacks, one on each cross gable and one in the centre. Each gable end has a 5-light window below and a 2-light one above. The rear elevation has six gabled dormers.
Interior
Interior not available for inspection at the time of resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as a part of the important layout consisting of Mounton House, the ancilliary buildings and the garden features, designed as a whole and constructed 1910-1912 by H Avray Tipping and Eric Francis.
Nearby in the register
- Mounton House CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mounton House CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden Walls of Mounton HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- East Courtyard Buildings at Mounton HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.