Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tre-Elidyr
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
- 51.76784, -2.99838
- Cadw reference
- 87196
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
One of an informal grouping of cottages around the War Memorial Green in the centre of Llanover village.
History
Built c1925 as part of the development Tre-elidyr designed by Alfred Powell. It was built as a memorial to WWI and to the son of Lord Treowen and others of the village who died in the conflict. The building is externally unaltered.
Exterior
Built of squared, uncoursed, rock faced red sandstone rubble with a weatherboarded extension and stone tiled roofs. Small double depth cottage in a C17 style Arts-and-Crafts manner. Single storey and attic, two bays, with doorway to right of centre. Plank door with small gabled porch, the drip behind indicates that the porch is a later addition. Two light lattice casement to left with dripmould over, the same windows also in two gabled dormers. Steeply pitched roof with stack to each gable.
left return gable has two more windows on each floor.
Right return gable has one window on each floor and a stair window at the half-landing. A single storey weatherboarded wing is attached with WC and coal-store etc.
The rear elevation has a 3-light and a 2-light window as before and two more dormers, small windows to extension.
Interior
Interior not seen at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as being a part of a planned War Memorial housing development around a green, which was designed by Alfred Powell and remains almost unaltered in detail.
Nearby in the register
- Wing Walls at entry to Tre-Elidyr Green opposite Dan-y-murCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Tre-ElidyrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tre-ElidyrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cross, War Memorial and Walls surrounding the Green at Tre-ElidyrCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.