Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Cloisters, including garden wall and door to road
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, designated on 10 November 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 10 November 2005
- Locality
- Abergavenny
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Abergavenny
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.82748, -3.02208
- Cadw reference
- 86888
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)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Close to N side of the junction with Avenue and Old Hereford Roads and facing towards the sports ground on the opposite side of Pen-y-pound road.
History
Said to have been built in later C19 as St John's School. Shown as 'The Cloisters' on the First Edition OS map sheet VI, surveyed in 1880. Now divided into residential apartments.
Exterior
Tall Victorian Gothic detached building in its own grounds. Two-storeys and attic, three bays including gabled wing forward to left. Coursed hammer dressed masonry with pale stone dressings including quoins, window and door surrounds. Steep slate roofs with panelled Gothic top to projecting stone stack on right (N) gable end. Pair of cut-down brick stacks to S elevation. Advanced wing has carved bishop (?) in pointed niche to attic; below are three- and four-light Tudor mullioned and transomed windows with rectangular dripmoulds. The main range has two-, three- and four-light similar windows with doorway under shallow pointed arch in angle.
Tall masonry garden wall to road with Gothic arched doorway under stepped parapet and with eroded shield in panel. Boarded door with strapwork hinges.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as a well-designed Gothic Revival building which has retained its character.
Nearby in the register
- Toll Gate HouseTransportunder 1 mi
- Gatepiers, Gates and Fence of The WillowsDomesticunder 1 mi
- The WillowsNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Entrance Gates of No. 11No class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.