Swiss Cottage | |
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Type | Gatehouse |
Location | Rockfield, Monmouthshire |
Coordinates | 51°49′32″N 2°45′17″W / 51.8255°N 2.7546°W |
Built | 1905 |
Architect | Aston Webb |
Architectural style(s) | Arts and Crafts |
Governing body | Privately owned |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Swiss Cottage, Llangattock-vibon-Avel |
Designated | 3 September 1991 |
Reference no. | 2857 |
The Swiss Cottage, Rockfield, Monmouthshire is a gatehouse to The Hendre estate and was designed by Sir Aston Webb in 1905. It is a Grade II* listed building.
The Hendre was the country home of the Rolls family since the 18th century [1] and, as the fortunes of the family rose, was subject to three major expansions in the 19th and 20th centuries, to the designs of George Vaughan Maddox, [2] then Thomas Henry Wyatt, [2] and finally Aston Webb. [2] Webb constructed the Cedar Library at the main mansion in the very late 19th century [2] and in 1905 designed the Swiss Cottage. [3] It formed a terminal point on the “3-mile Drive” constructed by Lord Llangattock, and designed by Henry Ernest Milner. [4]
The cottage is single-storeyed, with a dormer above, and is constructed of old red sandstone. [3] The roof is hipped and pierced at either end with large chimneystacks. The interior contains an inglenook fireplace. Cadw notes influences from Lutyens and Voysey, [3] while the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales considers it "an inspired and unusually distinctive symmetrical Arts-and-Crafts design". [5] The architectural historian John Newman described Swiss Cottage as "a sweet little thing but not particularly Swiss". [6]
Swiss Cottage | |
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Type | Gatehouse |
Location | Rockfield, Monmouthshire |
Coordinates | 51°49′32″N 2°45′17″W / 51.8255°N 2.7546°W |
Built | 1905 |
Architect | Aston Webb |
Architectural style(s) | Arts and Crafts |
Governing body | Privately owned |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Swiss Cottage, Llangattock-vibon-Avel |
Designated | 3 September 1991 |
Reference no. | 2857 |
The Swiss Cottage, Rockfield, Monmouthshire is a gatehouse to The Hendre estate and was designed by Sir Aston Webb in 1905. It is a Grade II* listed building.
The Hendre was the country home of the Rolls family since the 18th century [1] and, as the fortunes of the family rose, was subject to three major expansions in the 19th and 20th centuries, to the designs of George Vaughan Maddox, [2] then Thomas Henry Wyatt, [2] and finally Aston Webb. [2] Webb constructed the Cedar Library at the main mansion in the very late 19th century [2] and in 1905 designed the Swiss Cottage. [3] It formed a terminal point on the “3-mile Drive” constructed by Lord Llangattock, and designed by Henry Ernest Milner. [4]
The cottage is single-storeyed, with a dormer above, and is constructed of old red sandstone. [3] The roof is hipped and pierced at either end with large chimneystacks. The interior contains an inglenook fireplace. Cadw notes influences from Lutyens and Voysey, [3] while the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales considers it "an inspired and unusually distinctive symmetrical Arts-and-Crafts design". [5] The architectural historian John Newman described Swiss Cottage as "a sweet little thing but not particularly Swiss". [6]