Mounton House

Henry Avray Tipping was a garden designer and architectural writer of independent means. Tipping had earlier lived and worked at Mathern Palace in the late 1890s[1] and in 1910 began the construction of his home at Mounton, on the site of a cliff-top garden he had previously designed.[1] Tipping worked with the Chepstow architect Eric Francis to create a large house in the Arts and Crafts style using local materials.[1] Tipping lived at the house from its completion until 1922, when he moved to another Monmouthshire house and garden of his own design, High Glanau.[2] The house then became the site of a special school until the end of the 20th century.[2] The house and the estate buildings have now been converted to private homes and apartments.[3] The gardens were restored in the 2020s by the landscape architect Arne Maynard.[4] They are listed at Grade II* on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.[5]

The house is two-storeyed, with a large hipped roof.[6] The main building forms the central block of a three-sided courtyard, with a service court to the left and a long gallery to the right.[6] The house is a Grade II* listed building.[2] A large number of the estate structures have their own Grade II listings including, the North and Vine pergolas,[7][8] the North and South urns on the bowling green,[9][10] the tea house,[11] the courtyard buildings,[12] the garden walls[13] and three gardeners' cottages.[14][15][16]

• Newman, John (2000). Gwent/Monmouthshire. The Buildings of Wales. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-071053-1.