Seddon House School at Dingestow Court is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 September 2001. Coach-house.

Seddon House School at Dingestow Court

WRENN ID
broken-transept-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
27 September 2001
Type
Coach-house
Address
Seddon House School at Dingestow Court, Monmouth, Mitchel Troy
OS grid reference
SO 450 097
Coordinates
51.78357, -2.79849
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Seddon House School at Dingestow Court is a Tudor-style coach-house dating from the 1½-storey period. It features three steeply-pitched dormers and has been converted for use as a private school. The front is constructed from coursed pale brown sandstone rubble with freestone dressings, while the rear is made of mixed random rubble. The roof is covered with blue slates and includes ashlar gable copings and an ashlar chimney. Originally likely rectangular in shape and oriented east-west facing south, it now has two lean-to additions at the rear.

The symmetrical south front has a chamfered plinth that extends around the entire building. In the center, there is a large Tudor-arched coach doorway with a chamfered surround, which is now filled with a glazed screen and a part-glazed door. Above this doorway is a large gabled dormer that contains a transomed Tudor-arched window with Y-tracery in the head. To the left and right, there are two windows at ground floor level, with a gabled dormer above and between them, creating a triangular pattern. All windows are of two lights with chamfered mullions and diamond lattice leaded glazing; however, the ground floor windows are square-headed, while the dormer windows have coupled Tudor-arched lights.

Offset to the left of the central dormer on the roof ridge is an elegant octagonal chimney (or ventilator) with an open arcaded upper stage and a moulded cap finished with a ball finial, said to be inspired by a famous 14th-century stack at Grosmont Castle. The rear wall features various modern windows and doors, along with five skylights. The building has not been inspected but is likely to have undergone significant remodeling.

Local climate

Seddon House School at Dingestow Court receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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