Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cider House and Cowhouse at The Great House
Grosmont, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 19 October 2000
- Locality
- Llangua
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Grosmont
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.92850, -2.88442
- Cadw reference
- 24178
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
Attached to N gable of Great House, on steeply sloping ground on E side of minor road, some 500m S of the A465 road junction to Llangua.
History
A probably C18 farm range, converted for use as a Cider House in the C19.
Exterior
Single storey linear range. Rubble stone with corrugated metal roof. W front faces into farmyard with farmhouse attached to right, and has (l to r): a blocked entrance doorway, broad C20 cartshed entry with metal doors, a square window with timber lintel and internal boarded shutters, and a boarded door.
Interior
Five bay interior. Queen post roof trusses with two tiers of purlins. Former cowhouse, at downhill end, is separated from Cider House by a transverse post and panel partition. Well-preserved cider mill retains circular stone trough, drive shaft and stone mill wheel.
Reason for designation
Group value with farmhouse and barn at The Great House.
Nearby in the register
- The Great HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Barn at The Great HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn at Monmouth CapAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Shelter Shed at Monmouth CapAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.