Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Sunnyside
Whitecastle, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hendre, Monmouth, Whitecastle, Monmouthshire, designated on 6 August 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 6 August 1992
- Locality
- Hendre
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Whitecastle
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.82739, -2.79397
- Cadw reference
- 2878
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 233 Monmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Prominently sited above the road at corner with a lane running NW; faces SW towards Hendre Home Farm. Approximately 0.5km W of main drive.
History
Dated 1903 to right hand gable end; built as the Farm Manager's house for the Hendre estate. Modern extension to rear. The gable and chimney detail may indicate that the designs for this building were by Sir Aston Webb, architect of London, who is known to have designed other estate buildings as well as having enlarged the main house before 1902. The Hendre was the home of the Rolls family who were pioneers of aviation and motoring.
Exterior
Estate house in Arts-and-Crafts idiom. Two-storeys with elevation of snecked and rock-faced local rubble to ground floor and a rendered 1st floor above a stone band course; the gables are rounded at the apex and have curved kneelers to the freestone parapets. Tiled roof with swept valleys and overhanging eaves; Arts and Crafts derived tapered chimney stacks. L-plan. The main front is dominated by the gable to the left, which as well as having a ball finial, also has an enormous stuccoed emblem with the "L1" monogram (i.e Llangattock, the family title) and the motto "Celeritas et Veritas". Mostly 3-light small-pane casement windows with stone surrounds picked out to 1s floor; 4-light main ground floor window beside hipped roof porch which has timber posts over stone base; boarded door. Right hand gable return has bracketed bow window with small-pane glazing and 1903 date to gable arranged in a diamond shaped manner. Stepped back at rear with 2-light dormer lighting the stairwell.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved estate house, a simple essay in Arts-and-Crafts vernacular; and part of an important series of buildings built on the fine Hendre estate.
Nearby in the register
- Oak House East and WestDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Hall (former Village Hall)Institutionalunder 1 mi
- Horse trough with flanking walls opposite N drive to The HendreWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Box Bush Lodge at entrance to The HendreDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.