The Cloisters, including garden wall and door to road, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8275 / 51°49'38"N

Longitude: -3.0221 / 3°1'19"W

OS Eastings: 329660

OS Northings: 214812

OS Grid: SO296148

Mapcode National: GBR F5.W309

Mapcode Global: VH796.KBQD

Plus Code: 9C3RRXGH+X5

Entry Name: The Cloisters, including garden wall and door to road

Listing Date: 10 November 2005

Last Amended: 10 November 2005

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 86888

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300086888

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.

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Abergavenny

Community: Abergavenny (Y Fenni)

Community: Abergavenny

Built-Up Area: Abergavenny

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

Tagged with: Wall House

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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.

Reasons for Listing

Included for its special architectural interest as a well-designed Gothic Revival building which has retained its character.

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The Cloisters, including garden wall and door to road

A Grade II Listed Building in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire