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Thornwell Summerhouse

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 05344g
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Chepstow
Unitary authority : Monmouthshire
NGR : ST54059143
Site Type (preferred type first) : POST MEDIEVAL Summerhouse

Summary :
CPM Assessment of Land At Thornwell 1990 - pp10-11- Summer House (ST.54059143 approximately) A twb-storey building sometimes called the Folly, said to have been used as a seamark for trows in the channel; shown on a chart of c.1832 as 'Thornwell Lookout'

Description :
CPM Assessment of Land At Thornwell 1990 - pp10-11- Summer House (ST.54059143 approximately) A twb-storey building sometimes called the Folly, said to have been used as a seamark for trows in the channel; shown on a chart of c.1832 as 'Thornwell Lookout' (Waters, 1975, p.212). The 1906 sale catalogue still describes one field of a little over 6 acres as 'Summer House, Ground, Arable' (Gwent C.R.0, D.163.0001). No building is shown in th is field on either the 1901 Ordnance Survey 1:2500 or the 1906 sale catalogue map, but the 1921 O.S shows a building labelled as 'club house', presumably a later structure relating to the golf course. It was square'in plan, with an upper room approached by an external stairway and a domed roof, with lovers' knots carved in thiw plaster in the upper room; it would have commanded a splendid view. After the construction of the motorway through the southwestern angle of this field it fell into ruin, and was demolished in the early 1970s as an exercise by the -territorial army(inf.Mr Wiles). The description of the building as remembered would fit an 18th-century gazebo, but its failure to appear on the 1901 and 1906 maps is puzzling. The square outline of the building is still faintly visible on the ground, immediately above a pile of stones.

Sources :
CPM , 1990 , Preliminary Archaeological Assessment of Land at Thornwell, Chepstow. ( © CPM)
GGAT , 1991 , Proposed Development of Land At Thornwell Farm Chepstow, Field Evaluation ( © GGAT)
CPM Assessment of Land At Thornwell 1990

Events :
E000337 : Preliminary Archaeological Assessment of Land at Thornwell, Chepstow. (year : 1990)
E000361 : Land at Thornwell Farm,Chepstow (year : 1991)

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Compiled date : 10-02-1998


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