Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Volland House, The Forge, No 3 and Volland Cottage
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
- 51.58535, -3.11881
- Cadw reference
- 81808
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 the W side of Lower Machen and on the N side of the main road through the village.
History
One of row of four later C19 estate houses presumably built for the Machen House estate, owned from 1831 by the Rev. C.A.S. Morgan.
Exterior
House in group of four estate houses, painted roughcast with imitation stone tiles to steep eaves roofs and yellow brick chimneys with nogged caps. Two storeys, with crosswing to left with side-wall chimney and main range with three gables over eaves-breaking casement-pair windows and three chimneys. Ground floor of main range has three casement pairs under first floor windows and a door in porch to the left of each. Windows in raised stucco surrounds, board doors, porches with yellow brick bases, timber above with depressed-arched heads pierced with tiny trefoils and herringbone half-timbering in gables to two porches, the third in angle to crosswing with canted hipped roof. Porch sides have trellis infill. Lean-to on right end wall with similar casement-pair to front.
Crosswing has deeply overhanging verges, casement pair each floor and small blank single light in gable, all with hoodmoulds. Right side has small casement pair within porch in angle to main range. Left side has side-wall stack to right and 2-window range to left of similar windows and door in gabled trellis porch in right bay. Left end gable chimney.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as one of a group of later C19 estate houses with attractive porches and other details.
Nearby in the register
- The Toll HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Garden walls to S, W and N of NantygarthNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Gatepiers, gate and garden walls to Machen HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Footbridge over lake at Machen HouseTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.