Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wonastow House
Mitchel Troy, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 27 September 2001
- Locality
- Wonastow
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Mitchel Troy
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.79615, -2.75058
- Cadw reference
- 25790
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 400m NNW of the church of St Wonnow, on an elevated site off the N side of the minor road from Wonastow to Dingestow.
History
Built c.1800 as the vicarage to the Church of St Wonnow, being a substantial addition to an earlier farmhouse of which part remains as a service wing to the rear; slightly altered, porch added in 1930s.
Exterior
A simple Regency design. Painted stucco, shallow hipped slate roof with oversailing eaves. Rectangular double-depth plan facing W, plus SE service wing (the former house). The 2-storey, 3-window facade has an added rectangular flat-roofed porch in the centre, with a large segmental-headed opening to the front now filled with a multi-paned sashed window (but probably formerly a doorway); two 12-pane sash windows at ground floor, and three 9-pane sashes above. There is a chimney stack offset to the right behind the front ridge of the roof. Attached to the right-hand return wall is a curved, flat-roofed bay window. In the angle with the rear wing is a lean-to conservatory against the front wall of the wing, covering a doorway and a window, and above this is a tripartite sashed window. The S gable of this wing has an extruded former bread-oven (not visible internally), and a gable chimney.
Interior
Straight staircase with stick balusters; fluted architraves to the doorways; dining room to the rear of the right-hand side, of long and low proportions, with 2 coved niches in the front end.
Reason for designation
Included as a simple but attractive Regency house.
Nearby in the register
- Wonastow CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cross in St Wonnow's churchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St WonnowReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Wonastow LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.