Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gardener's Cottage at High Glanau
Mitchel Troy, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 22 February 1989
- Locality
- Mitchel Troy
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Mitchel Troy
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.76347, -2.72857
- Cadw reference
- 2815
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
Above and to NE of the house which is set in its own wooded grounds. The cottage lies between the upper and lower drives.
History
Contemporary with the house, 1922-3, and in a similar free Arts and Crafts style. The architect of High Glanau was Eric Francis in collaboration with H.Avray Tipping; the latter laid out the gardens in a style similar to that of Gertrude Jekyll.
Exterior
Single storey rubble cottage with slate roof and axial rubble chimney stack with cornice; wide swept eaves with pronounced stepped kneelers. Entrance offset to right with part glazed door flanked by 2 and 3-light small pane casement windows. Similar cross frame window with stepped cornice and relieving arch to left gable end facing gardens. Doorway to rear.
Reason for designation
Included as an integral part of the ensemble at High Glanau.
Nearby in the register
- Garage at High GlanauDomesticunder 1 mi
- High GlanauDomesticunder 1 mi
- Terraces at High GlanauGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Garden Wall and Pergola at High GlanauGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.