Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Fro Fawr
Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 3 July 2007
- Locality
- Llanover
- Community
- Goetre Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.77724, -2.97862
- Cadw reference
- 87531
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 800 metres ESE of Llanover Church.
History
Originally an early C17 house of Fox & Raglan's regional 2-room type, extended to R perhaps in C18, and with an additional rear wing of C19.
Exterior
Two storey farmhouse; stone with stone tiled roof; rectangular end chimneys in brick. To L, a slightly advanced 2-window block with two casement windows to first floor, and on ground floor, doorway with gabled hood, and casement window to its L. Three window block to R; R gable with small window towards front, and brick outshut rear. Left gable has small window towards front (ground floor), a window on each floor towards rear; gabled block to rear.
Interior
Said to retain decorated cupboard doorhead with classicising relief and rosettes in spandrels. Shaped door head; post & panel partition; stop-chamfered beams. Large moulded stone fire surround.
Reason for designation
Farmhouse with early C17 origins retaining good interior character.
Nearby in the register
- The Old SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
- The Old SchoolhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Early Gravestone in Churchyard of Church of St. CadocReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St. CadocReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.