Monnow Villa is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 March 2001. A C18 Cottage.

Monnow Villa

WRENN ID
dim-joist-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 March 2001
Type
Cottage
Address
Monnow Villa, Skenfrith, Monmouth
OS grid reference
SO 455 203
Coordinates
51.87924, -2.79205
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Monnow Villa is a row of three stone-built cottages from the late 18th century, located on the north side of the churchyard. They are constructed of random rubble, with the facade painted white and the left gable rendered. The cottages have a blue slate roof and a rectangular double-depth plan oriented on a northeast-southwest axis, facing south. Each cottage is single-fronted and features a lean-to at the northeast gable end, along with a 20th-century lean-to garage at the opposite end.

The cottages are two storeys high and have a three-window range, with the doorway positioned to the left and one window on each floor to the right. The ground-floor openings have segmental heads with rubble voussoirs. The doorways are protected by distinctive curved metal canopies on lightweight metal brackets and are fitted with glazed-panel doors. The windows are small-paned 2-light casements. There are two small rendered chimneys on the ridge.

The lean-to at the northeast end contains a segmental-headed doorway with a board door. In the southwest gable, there is a small modern window situated above the lean-to garage. At the rear, each cottage has a square-headed 1-light window on each floor, except for the cottage at the southwest end, which has a 2-light casement on the ground floor. All rear windows have glazing bars, and the ground-floor windows feature wooden lintels.

The property has not been inspected.

Local climate

Monnow Villa receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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