Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Old Schoolhouse
Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 9 December 2005
- Locality
- Llanover
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Goetre Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.77780, -2.98740
- Cadw reference
- 87165
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
About 500m south of the Church of St. Bartholomew on the east side of the road from Llanellen to Llanfair Kilgeddin.
History
This building was probably especially built as the Llanover parish schoolmaster's house, which it was from 1835 when the school moved from the tower of St. Bartholomew's Church (qv); until the present school was built at Tre-elidyr (qv) in 1925.
Exterior
Built of roughly coursed local rubblestone which is completely painted over, natural slate roof and red brick stack. Picturesque gabled style. T-shaped plan, two storeys. Three bay central entrance elevation with gabled wing to rear. Part-glazed door with gabled porch. This is flanked by 3-light bays with pent slate roofs; three 3-light windows above, with straight stone drips, all windows are early C20. Plain steeply pitched roof. Left return gable has another bay window on the ground floor with a casement window above. Wing to rear right has two windows both 2-light small paned casements on the ground floor, but of different sizes, only one above. The gable end of the wing has another bay as before and three other windows all with drips over. Steeply pitched roof with projecting eaves and ridge stack.
Rear elevation not seen.
Interior
Interior not available at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as part of the estate school in the C19 built for the children of the Llanover Estate workers. The house retains good picturesque character.
Nearby in the register
- The Old SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
- Cross in Churchyard of Church of St. BartholomewReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St. Bartholomew's Churchyard Cross, LlanoverCrossunder 1 mi
- Church of St. BartholomewReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.