Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Llantilio Estate Laundry at Llewyncelyn
Whitecastle, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 27 October 2000
- Locality
- Llantilio Crossenny
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Whitecastle
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.82591, -2.87948
- Cadw reference
- 24288
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
Approximately 500m SW of Llantilio Crossenny church, on S side of the minor road which runs between the Hostry Inn and B 4233 in direction of Abergavenny.
History
Late C19 estate laundry, dated 1878, built for Sir Henry Mather Jackson of Llantilio Court.
Exterior
Small late C19 estate laundry. Rubble stone with gabled slate roof and off-centre brick stack. Ridge has small louvred ventilator with gabled slate canopy. Single-storey SW front is irregular with boarded door (left), and a 4-light mullion window with 2+2+2+2 panes and stone sill (right). NE elevation has 2+2 casement (right) and similar 2+2+2+2 casement (left). SE gable with boarded half doors (left) and 3+3 casement (right). Opposing NW gable carries stone shield in gable-head inscribed:
H M J
1878
On ground floor (centre), a 2+2 pane casement has skewback lintel with stone voussoirs and angled dripstone, and stone sill.
Interior
2-unit interior. Entry into stone-flagged wash-house. Boarded door opens into 3-bay laundry (right). Scissor truss roof with kingposts and one tier of purlins.
Reason for designation
Estate laundry of 1878 with well-preserved interior including unusual scissor truss roof. Group value with house at Llewyncelyn and nearby Hostry Cottage.
Nearby in the register
- LlewyncelynNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Hostry CottageNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- White House FarmhouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Weir HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.