The Cloisters, including garden wall and door to road is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 November 2005. Detached building.

The Cloisters, including garden wall and door to road

WRENN ID
dark-pillar-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 November 2005
Type
Detached building
Address
The Cloisters, including garden wall and door to road, 18 Pen-Y-Pound, Abergavenny
OS grid reference
SO 296 148
Coordinates
51.82748, -3.02208
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Cloisters is a tall Victorian Gothic detached building set in its own grounds. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring three bays, including a gabled wing that projects forward to the left. The structure is built from coursed hammer-dressed masonry, accented with pale stone dressings such as quoins and window and door surrounds. The steep slate roofs include a panelled Gothic top on a projecting stone stack located on the north gable end, along with a pair of cut-down brick stacks on the south elevation. The advanced wing displays a carved figure of a bishop in a pointed niche in the attic, with three- and four-light Tudor mullioned and transomed windows below, each featuring rectangular dripmoulds. The main range has two-, three-, and four-light windows of a similar style, along with a doorway situated under a shallow pointed arch in the angle of the building.

A tall masonry garden wall borders the road, featuring a Gothic arched doorway beneath a stepped parapet, which includes an eroded shield in a panel. The doorway is fitted with a boarded door that has strapwork hinges.

Local climate

The Cloisters, including garden wall and door to road receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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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