Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stable at Town Farm
Grosmont, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 19 October 2000
- Locality
- Grosmont
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Grosmont
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.91449, -2.86788
- Cadw reference
- 24131
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
Some 50m NW of the Church of St Nicholas in the centre of Grosmont, on N side of the minor road leading to Great Tresenny. The stable block lies on the opposite side of the road to Town farmhouse.
History
A lofted stable block of 1671, contemporary with farmhouse at Town Farm (1673). The former cartshed or coach house at N end, was converted into a cow byre probably in C19.
Exterior
C17 stable block. Thinly coursed rubble stone, with C20 corrugated metal roof. E front faces roadway, with stable to left and cartshed to right. Two and a half storey range. E front, first floor (left) has loft with boarded double-doors. Ground floor stable has chamfered doorway with flat head inscribed '1671' and C17 Plank and batten door with 'trident' strap hinges. To right, is a C17 tall wooden 7-light window with diamond mullions. N end (to right) has small boarded loft door, and broad ground floor carriage entry with C20 boarded door. S gable has blocked window openings in gable head and on first floor, and ground-floor segmental arched window with stone voussoirs and keystone (re-used window inserted into partly blocked opening).
Interior
Stable ceiling beam is chamfered. Cartshed has raking queen strut roof truss. (Stable loft not accessible at time of resurvey).
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a well-preserved stable dated 1671. Group value with the farmhouse at Town Farm.
Nearby in the register
- York HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Town FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Angel InnNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Angel CottageNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.