Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cider House and attached Outhouse at Upper White Castle
Whitecastle, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 27 October 2000
- Locality
- White Castle
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Whitecastle
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.84528, -2.90085
- Cadw reference
- 24333
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Some 20m NW of the farmhouse at Upper White Castle, at upper end of a gently sloping farmyard.
History
C19 lofted cider house, which appears on the Tithe Map of 1843.
Exterior
C19 cider house (left) with attached outhouse (right) in linear range. Rubble stone with slate roofs. Openings have segmental arched heads of stone voussoirs, and shallow stone sills. Cider house is two-storey. S front, far right, has a external stone stair which rises to boarded door of upper granary. To left, on first floor, are three square blocked openings. On ground floor (l t r) are: a wide doorway with boarded door flanked by narrow chamfered vent slits on each side, next a second wide boarded door, and then a partly-boarded window opening. The projecting wall of the adjoining granary stair has a flat headed doorway to narrow storage passage. To left is attached single-storey outhouse which has boarded door (right) and tall 2-light mullion window (left).
Interior
Loft of cider house is 5-bays and has C19 king post roof trusses with raking side struts.
Reason for designation
C19 Cider House and Outhouse having important group value with the C17 farmhouse at Upper White Castle, White Castle ruins and the other listed buildings at White Castle.
Nearby in the register
- Pigsty at Upper White CastleNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Upper White Castle FarmhouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- White Castle CottageNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- White Castle RuinsDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.