Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Front Wall and Entrance Gates of Mathern House
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
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 10 October 2000
- Locality
- Mathern
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Mathern
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61560, -2.68892
- Cadw reference
- 24097
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 village about 150m north east of the Church of St Tewdric and opposite Mathern Lodge.
History
Early C19 entrance gates with flanking walls built to enhance the approach to Mathern House (qv). It does not appear on the tithe map of 1839 but must have been built about this time.
Exterior
Rendered and painted wall of very unusual design. The wall has a double convex bow with central entrance gates and in the centre of each bow is a foot gate. The wall has piers at either end and is otherwise topped by wrought iron spear-head railings wihich are repeated in the gates.
Reason for designation
Included as a very unusual early C19 garden wall which has group value with the adjacent Mathern House and Mathern Lodge.
Nearby in the register
- Mathern LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mathern HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- East Wing, Mathern HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mathern VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.