Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pit Cottages
Llanarth, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pit, Llanarth, Monmouthshire, designated on 27 January 2006.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 27 January 2006
- Locality
- Pit
- Community
- Llanarth
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.78203, -2.90966
- Cadw reference
- 85514
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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)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the southern edge of the hamlet of Pit, on the right-hand side of the lane that leads south from Pit towards Clytha.
History
Pair of Llanarth estate cottages, probably c1890.
Exterior
Pair of cottages in simple picturesque idiom. Random rubble of informal polychrome character, with rusticated quoins and Welsh slate roofs. Axial brick stack (rebuilt); decorated barge-boards at front and side gables. A symmetrical pair, with advanced gables at centre, and porches in angle of gable and main range to either side. Porches both have hipped stone tiled roofs, and are timber boarded - vertically to left (no 1), horizontally to right (no 2). Small windows over each porch. Central gables have canted bay windows with stone tiled roofs to ground floor, and 2-light casement windows above with steep arched heads with voussoirs. Windows all have transoms and margin-lights, giving a distinctive decorative effect. Similar windows with voussoirs to arched heads in gable ends. Simpler detail to rear, where there are also later additions.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good pair of late C19 estate cottages, retaining simple picturesque character with distinctive detail.
Nearby in the register
- Pit Farm CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Huntsman's CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty'r NantDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gatehouse at Llanarth CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.