Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Woodbine Cottage and attached Granary
Grosmont, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 19 October 2000
- Locality
- Grosmont
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Grosmont
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.91574, -2.86803
- Cadw reference
- 24128
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
Stands above roadway and at right angles to it in raised garden, approximately 100m NW of the Market Hall in the centre of Grosmont.
History
Small mid-C19 house, with attached granary/workshop.
Exterior
Mid-C19 double-fronted cottage. Rubble stone, slate roof with brick end-stacks. Two-storey S front is symmetrical. First floor has three 4-pane horned sashes, deep stone lintels with incised voussoirs, shallow stone sills. Ground floor entrance doorway is central with 6-panel door (centre 2 panels glazed) and trellis porch with flat canopy. Flanking each side of doorway are 16-pane hornless sash windows in similar openings. Granary (to right) is two storey with slightly lower roof line. First floor has two 16-pane horned sashes with deep stone lintels and shallow painted sills; ground floor, a plank and batten door with applied fillets (left) and 16-pane sash (right). E gable stone steps rise to upper boarded door. W gable fronts road and is three storey with outshut. Basement floor has (l to r) boarded door with vent slits in head, boarded door with 9-pane window in head, and 2-pane sash. First floor of outshut (left) has 3-pane horned sash window.
Interior
Double-fronted cottage has two-unit plan, with staircase opposite entry. Ground floor room (right) has good mid-C19 marble fireplace surround. Staircase of winders, square newel post with moulded cap, plain balusters. Basement has well-preserved C19 cast iron cottage range.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved C19 cottage range with attached granary. Group value with other listed buildings in central Grosmont.
Nearby in the register
- Rock Villa including Railed ForecourtNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Glyndwr including Railed ForecourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Steppes including Railed ForecourtNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box opposite Grosmont Town HallCommunicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.