Little Pool Hall & attached Stable is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 2000. Farmhouse.
Little Pool Hall & attached Stable
- WRENN ID
- stranded-keep-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 October 2000
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Little Pool Hall & attached Stable, Llanvetherine, Abergavenny, Skenfrith
- OS grid reference
- SO 365 186
- Coordinates
- 51.86255, -2.92296
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a substantial two-storey farmhouse with an attached stable block. The house likely began as an early 17th-century building, with a later 17th-century addition, and further alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The original core is constructed of rubble stone, while the roof is slate with a central rendered stack. The northwest front faces into a farmyard.
The earlier section of the house, to the left, features a small two-light window with an iron stanchion and inner shutter on the ground floor. To its right is a diamond mullion window, retaining three beaded mullions flanked by iron stanchions and internal shutters. The remains of an external stone stair are visible as a ruined wall. The entrance doorway has a plank door with strap hinges. Above, the first floor has an 18th-century metal casement with a timber lintel and stone sill, a small square opening with a metal casement, and a boarded loft door that was formerly accessed by a stone stair. A vertical break in the masonry marks the boundary of the later 17th-century addition to the right. The ground floor of this addition features a three-light casement and a stone-tiled lean-to, formerly a cider house, with a plank and batten door fitted with trident strap hinges. The first floor has a four-pane and a three-pane casement. The southwest gable displays a 19th-century four-pane horned sash window in the gable head. Similar windows are located on the first floor with angled dripstones and a stone sill, and on the ground floor, a barred window with an angled dripstone and a window with an eight-pane casement to the left of a central mullion and a twelve-pane sash to the right.
The rear elevation, which faces southeast, has a large lateral chimney stack with a moulded cap and rectangular stone flue corresponding to the later 17th-century addition. A 19th-century four-pane horned sash window with a segmental arch and a four-panel door are also present, along with a tall three-light window with a segmental arch. Small square stair windows with voussoired arches are located on both the ground and first floors of the central wall. The first floor of the original, left-hand section has a 17th-century transom and a 20th-century replacement window, while the ground floor features a one-light casement, a boarded door. Two slate-roofed lean-to additions are attached to the rear wall, with a lofted stable block connected to the northeast gable.
Inside, the early 17th-century section opens into a stone-flagged hall with ceiling beams featuring roll moulding and angle beads. A broad fireplace opening contains a 19th-century kitchen range. An adjoining dairy has chamfered ceiling beams with straight cut stops. To the right of the entrance is a 17th-century doorway with a Tudor arched head and quarter roll moulding, leading to a plank and batten door with strap hinges and applied fillets. The ground floor of the later 17th-century addition exhibits complex Renaissance moulding to the ceiling beams—a hollow inserted between two rolls—and above a fireplace, a semi-circular recess is said to have been part of a dog turnspit mechanism. A late 18th-century forest pattern hob grate is in the adjoining parlour’s fireplace. A first-floor chamber above has an early 18th-century fireplace surround with egg and dart moulded architraves. An adjoining lobby contains an in and out partition. A second bedroom has a bolection moulded fireplace surround and cupboards to each side. The attic space has a central stack and a roof with collar trusses and three rows of purlins on each side.
Local climate
Little Pool Hall & attached Stable receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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