Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old Tan House
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
- 51.91404, -2.86481
- Cadw reference
- 24144
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
Prominently sited on the SE approach to Grosmont village, approximately 100m E of St Nicholas's Church.
History
C19 double-fronted house, though the projecting chimney stack suggests earlier origins.
Exterior
C19 double-fronted house. Red sandstone rubble with some ashlar dressings, hipped slate roof and rendered stone stacks. Two storey symmetrical front with projecting gable chimneys. Hornless sash windows; window-heads have slightly cambered arches of stone voussoirs, thin stone sills. First floor has centre 12-pane sash flanked by 16-pane sashes on each side. Ground floor has centre entrance doorway with semi-circular voussoired arch, glazed overlight and 6-panel door, flanked on each side by 24-pane hornless sashes. S elevation is rendered with C20 glazed doors on ground floor and a 16-pane sash on the first floor.
Interior
Not available for inspection at time of resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved C19 house, with its important group value.
Nearby in the register
- AthelstanNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Alma House including Railed ForecourtNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- WoodviewNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Coach House at The Post OfficeNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.