The Old Post, Graig, Newport

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5851 / 51°35'6"N

Longitude: -3.1167 / 3°7'0"W

OS Eastings: 322727

OS Northings: 187955

OS Grid: ST227879

Mapcode National: GBR J0.CBRY

Mapcode Global: VH6DV.XFP5

Plus Code: 9C3RHVPM+38

Entry Name: The Old Post

Listing Date: 22 August 2003

Last Amended: 22 August 2003

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 81804

ID on this website: 300081804

Location: On S side of village main road, some 150m SW of the church.

County: Newport

Town: Newport

Community: Graig

Locality: Lower Machen

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

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History

Village house, later C18 possibly on earlier core. House and outbuilding under single roof.

Exterior

House, white-painted rubble stone with concrete tile roof, rendered painted left end stack and ridge stack towards right end. Two storeys, three-window house range set to left of outbuilding under same roof to right. House has casement-pair windows with small panes, and stone sills, lower ones with cambered heads. C20 half-glazed centre door with C20 timber hood. Bay spacing is uneven, one to left, two to right, ground floor left window is larger than right one and has brick head, right one has stone voussoirs. Lean-to on left end wall of painted brick with double boarded garage doors, the lean-to roof continued back as outshut to a rear wing with S end stack. Outshut E side has door and long window to left.
Front walling is continuous to outbuilding to right which has one ledged door at extreme right, with timber lintel. C20 windows in end gable and rubble stone lean-to addition.

Interior

Interior not inspected. As investigated in 1977 there were beams to the left part and rough joists to the right and collar trusses to the roof with wide thin blades.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a long vernacular range in village centre opposite entry to Machen House, with surviving features of late C18 to early C19.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Gatepiers, gate and garden walls to Machen House
On the S and W side of the house in Lower Machen. Machen House is set in its own grounds beside the Parish Church.
II Corner House
On SE corner of village main road, and lane to church. Behind stone garden wall which has Gothic doorway to W.
II Front gates and railings to The Cottage
On the E side of the road N through Lower Machen village, some 100m S of the Church of Saint Michael.
II The Cottage
On the E side of the road N through Lower Machen village, some 100m S of the Church of Saint Michael.
II Trough and surround in wall to The Court
On the W side of the road N through Lower Machen village just S of the churchyard gates.
II Footbridge over lake at Machen House
Some 65m SW of the house in Lower Machen. Machen House is set in its own grounds beside the Parish Church.
II Churchyard gates and piers to the Church of St Michael
On the S side of the churchyard of the Church of Saint Michael.
II Railings and gate to Parkfield House
On the E side of the road N through Lower Machen village, opposite the gates to the churchyard.

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The Old Post

A Grade II Listed Building in Graig, Newport