Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Well-house on E side of lane, opposite village hall
Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 19 March 2001
- Locality
- Cross Ash
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Skenfrith
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.87415, -2.86322
- Cadw reference
- 25021
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
Behind the hedge on the E side of a lane running N from Cross Ash Post Office and approximately 130m N of it, opposite the village hall.
History
Small well-house, probably C18 or early C19.
Exterior
Built of coursed sandstone rubble and some old brick. Approximately 2m square and 2m high to the top of the walls and a steep pyramidal roof of stepped courses. The S side has a doorway with a board door.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a simple example of a distinctive and unusual building type; one of a group of similar buildings in this locality, with Well house to N of Graig House (q.v.) and Stone Well-house opposite New Inn Farm (q.v.).
Nearby in the register
- Former coach-house and screen wall to W of Graig HouseTransportunder 1 mi
- Graig House (aka Great Graig) including terrace to S and EDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cross Ash FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Well-house to N of Graig HouseWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.