Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Revetment Walls and Paved Roadway at Hygga House
Trellech United, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 28 February 2001
- Locality
- Trellech
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Trellech United
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.72937, -2.74591
- Cadw reference
- 24932
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
About 500m north east of the Church of St Dennis at Llanishen and approached down a lane on the east side of Chepstow Road (B4293) and running from Hygga House towards Hygga Farm.
History
This roadway seems likely to date from the late C18 or early C19. It is in extremely good and unaltered condition because it was covered in earth for many years and has only recently been excavated.
Exterior
The walls and roadway are constructed of mixed local rubblestone, with sandstone and conglomerate. The road climbs a steep slope from the house up to the farmyard and is flanked by rubble retaining walls about 1m in height. The paved roadway, which is about 40m in length is in a repeating pattern of stars very carefully and decoratively laid in pitched stone. The pattern repeats in roughly square sections.
Reason for designation
Included as a particularly fine and well preserved example of a C18 paved roadway with flanking revetments.
Nearby in the register
- Dovecote at Hygga HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dovecot at Hygga Farmdovecoteunder 1 mi
- Stable and Cowhouse at Hygga FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Granary at Pant-glas FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.