Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Octagonal Shelter 3 in the grounds to south of Pen-y-fal
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 15 June 1992
- Locality
- Pen-y-fal
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Abergavenny
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.82418, -3.00807
- Cadw reference
- 2873
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
High up, on top of the grassed bank at the south-east end of the site overlooking the open courtyards behind the former Infirmary; beside the rubble perimeter wall.
History
Contemporary with the early C20 expansion of the hospital (qv Pen-y-fal Apartments) which was first built in the mid C19 as the Joint County Lunatic Asylum. Considerable new building was done here in 1901-4 and 1910 designed by Edward Johnson. Public Health Acts and reforms had created the requirement to provide institutionalised people with the opportunity for outdoor recreation. These shelters are probably prefabricated designs bought from a catalogue. They were commonly provided in Asylums at this time and were also used in all kinds of public parks and promenades.
Exterior
Spa or seaside style octagonal timber shelter roofed with new broadly corrugated steel sheeting and with finial carried on corner pillars, the top halves of which are in the form of turned balusters; boarded fretted valances to eaves. Within there are four bays formed by half-glazed screens with glazing bars; these have planked benches and splayed sides midway between the main pillars; flat ceiling.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Pen-y-Fal Hospital and the associated historic items.
Nearby in the register
- Octagonal Shelter 2 in the grounds to south of Pen-y-falGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Parc Pen-y-fal (former main hospital building)Health and Welfareunder 1 mi
- Octagonal Shelter 1 in the grounds to south-west of Pen-y-falGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Rectangular Shelter in the grounds of Pen-y-falGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.