The Hendre | |
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Native name Welsh: Yr Hendre | |
"a striking Victorian country-house, the eclecticism of its architectur(e) reflecting its complex history" | |
Type | House |
Location | Llangattock-Vibon-Avel, Monmouthshire, Wales |
Coordinates | 51°49′23″N 2°47′12″W / 51.8231°N 2.7868°W |
Built | 18th and 19th centuries |
Architect | George Vaughan Maddox, Thomas Henry Wyatt, Aston Webb |
Architectural style(s) | Victorian Gothic |
Governing body | golf club |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | The Hendre |
Designated | 11 April 1985 |
Reference no. | 2773 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Garden pond with fountain in former rose garden at The Hendre |
Designated | 19 March 2001 |
Reference no. | 25061 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Ornamental bridge in the grounds of The Hendre |
Designated | 19 March 2001 |
Reference no. | 25058 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Garden pavilion, raised terrace and screen wall to former rose garden to east and south of The Hendre |
Designated | 19 March 2001 |
Reference no. | 25028 |
Official name | The Hendre |
Designated | 1 February 2022 |
Reference no. | PGW(Gt)17(Mon) |
Listing | Grade II* |
The Hendre, (Welsh: Yr Hendre a farmer's winter residence; literally meaning old home) in Rockfield, is the only full-scale Victorian country house in the county of Monmouthshire, Wales. The ancestral estate of the Rolls family, it was the childhood home of Charles Rolls, the motoring and aviation pioneer and the co-founder of Rolls-Royce. Constructed in the Victorian Gothic style, the house was developed by three major architects, George Vaughan Maddox, Thomas Henry Wyatt and Sir Aston Webb. It is located in the civil parish of Llangattock-Vibon-Avel, some 4 miles (6.4 km) north-west of the town of Monmouth. Built in the eighteenth century as a shooting box, it was vastly expanded by the Rolls family in three stages during the nineteenth century. The house is Grade II* listed and is now the clubhouse of the Rolls of Monmouth Golf Club. The gardens and landscape park, mainly laid out by Henry Ernest Milner in the later 19th century, are designated Grade II* on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.