
About The Hendre
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures
The Hendre, (Welsh: Yr Hendre - a farmer's winter residence; literally meaning old home), Rockfield, Monmouthshire is the county's only full-scale Victorian country house. The ancestral estate of the Rolls family, it was the childhood home of Charles Stewart Rolls, the motoring and aviation pioneer and 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 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 throughout the nineteenth century. The house is Grade II* Listed and is now the clubhouse of the Rolls of Monmouth Golf Club.