Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Old Post
Graig, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 22 August 2003
- Locality
- Lower Machen
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Graig
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58513, -3.11670
- Cadw reference
- 81804
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
On S side of village main road, some 150m SW of the church.
History
Village house, later C18 possibly on earlier core. House and outbuilding under single roof.
Exterior
House, white-painted rubble stone with concrete tile roof, rendered painted left end stack and ridge stack towards right end. Two storeys, three-window house range set to left of outbuilding under same roof to right. House has casement-pair windows with small panes, and stone sills, lower ones with cambered heads. C20 half-glazed centre door with C20 timber hood. Bay spacing is uneven, one to left, two to right, ground floor left window is larger than right one and has brick head, right one has stone voussoirs. Lean-to on left end wall of painted brick with double boarded garage doors, the lean-to roof continued back as outshut to a rear wing with S end stack. Outshut E side has door and long window to left.
Front walling is continuous to outbuilding to right which has one ledged door at extreme right, with timber lintel. C20 windows in end gable and rubble stone lean-to addition.
Interior
Interior not inspected. As investigated in 1977 there were beams to the left part and rough joists to the right and collar trusses to the roof with wide thin blades.
Reason for designation
Included as a long vernacular range in village centre opposite entry to Machen House, with surviving features of late C18 to early C19.
Nearby in the register
- Gatepiers, gate and garden walls to Machen HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Corner HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Front gates and railings to The CottageNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- The CottageNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.