Old Nevill Hall (Conference Centre) is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1973. Mansion, conference centre.
Old Nevill Hall (Conference Centre)
- WRENN ID
- muted-zinc-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1973
- Type
- Mansion, conference centre
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Old Nevill Hall is a large mansion dating from the mid-to-late 19th century, built of snecked stone with a tiled roof and numerous elaborate stone chimneys. It is constructed in a Tudor-Gothic style and arranged in an L-plan, consisting of a main rectangular block facing the northwest and a longer service and bedroom wing to the rear. The building is two storeys high with attics. The windows are mostly narrow, horned sash windows set within stone mullioned frames. Most gables retain elaborate scalloped and fretted bargeboards.
The northwest (entrance) front has three windows and two gables. A central crenellated splayed oriel window sits above a porch with a Gothic doorway. Above this, on the first floor, are four-light mullion and transom windows, each beneath a Gothic relieving arch with a small Gothic window. On the ground floor, to the left is a crenellated square bay window with five Gothic lights, and to the right is a crenellated splayed bay window. The northeast elevation features a long wing with a central group of three gables, the taller central gable flanked by lower, half-hipped gables. A chimney with three stone stacks in the form of columns is visible to the right, and at the left end is a cross-range with a steeply pitched gable, below which is a single-storey block.
The south return has a long elevation with four dormer windows with fretted bargeboards. Below these is a lower block with two broad gables flanking a narrow central bay. A turreted entrance porch is located at the southeast corner. The long southwest elevation features a gable with fretted bargeboards and a three-window block with a smaller gable and fretted bargeboard. A turret is positioned at the angle with the rear of the main block. A chimney with three flues in the form of a group of columns is visible to the left, below which is a stone Gothic (former) conservatory with a crenellated parapet, a semi-hexagonal bay, elaborate Gothic floral corbels and capitals, wooden doors, and glazing with cusped tracery. To the right is an entrance with a four-light Gothic window above, and a smaller Gothic window to the right.
The entrance hall features a deep fleur-de-lys and leaf cornice, and a top-lit cantilever staircase with a wrought-iron balustrade leads to the second floor. Landings also have deep fleur-de-lys cornices, though the stair-light has modern glazing. A wooden Gothic screen separates the entrance hall from a half-timbered lobby and the former Gothic conservatory. While the interior has been modernised with suspended ceilings for use as an education centre, original features remain, including panelled doors, cornices, and fireplaces.
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