Lower Ton is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 March 2000. Farmhouse.
Lower Ton
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-spire-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 March 2000
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Ton, Llanvapley, Abergavenny, Gobion Fawr
- OS grid reference
- SO 368 135
- Coordinates
- 51.81692, -2.91727
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Lower Ton is a farmhouse constructed from rubble stone with slate roofs, featuring a two-storey and attic L-plan layout. The southwest range has been reduced in the early 20th century, with a lean-to roof replacing the original gabled roof. A brick stack remains at the north end. The north-south range includes a northeast wing, with the entrance located at the angle on the east side of the main range. The entry consists of a plank door set in a recessed ogee-moulded oak frame, topped with a pent slate roof supported by massive timber brackets.
To the left of the entrance are ovolo-moulded timber-mullion windows with hoodmoulds, featuring a four-light window below and a three-light window above. Above these windows is a shallow-pitched roof that has replaced the original gable and loft. The rebuilt gable, made of red brick, is positioned between the windows and the door. The south end has a 20th-century ground floor window with a hoodmould and a blocked door to the right.
The wing has a two-window south front, with a small pair of casement windows on each floor to the left, and a larger pair of 20th-century tilting lights on the first floor to the right. The ground floor on the right features a 20th-century metal window in a former doorway. The east end gable has cement coping, a two-light timber mullion attic window, and a pair of four-pane windows at ground level. The rear north wall of the wing has a boarded-over stair window to the right above a blocked door.
The main range has a narrow 20th-century window on each floor in the short east section to the right of the wing. The north gable end features an external chimney breast with a small two-light timber window on the first floor to the right. Projecting stones at the northwest corner suggest that the building may have extended further or was originally intended to do so. The west side of the main range has a three-window range, mostly consisting of 20th-century windows, with hoodmoulds above the window and door in the right bay and a moulded string course over the ground floor.
The interior is not available for inspection but is said to contain heavy beams.
Local climate
Lower Ton receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% 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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