Swiss Cottage
"...not particularly Swiss"
Type	Gatehouse
Location	Rockfield, Monmouthshire
Coordinates	51°49′32″N 2°45′17″W / 51.8255°N 2.7546°W / 51.8255; -2.7546
Built	1905
Architect	Aston Webb
Architectural style(s)	Arts and Crafts
Governing body	Privately owned
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name	Swiss Cottage, Llangattock-vibon-Avel
Designated	3 September 1991
Reference no.	2857
Location of Swiss Cottage in Monmouthshire

The Swiss Cottage, Rockfield, Monmouthshire is a gatehouse to The Hendre estate and was designed by Sir Aston Webb in 1905. It is a Grade II* listed building.

The Hendre was the country home of the Rolls family since the 18th century^[1] and, as the fortunes of the family rose, was subject to three major expansions in the 19th and 20th centuries, to the designs of George Vaughan Maddox,^[2] then Thomas Henry Wyatt,^[2] and finally Aston Webb.^[2] Webb constructed the Cedar Library at the main mansion in the very late 19th century^[2] and in 1905 designed the Swiss Cottage.^[3] It formed a terminal point on the “3-mile Drive” constructed by Lord Llangattock, and designed by Henry Ernest Milner.^[4]

The cottage is single-storeyed, with a dormer above, and is constructed of old red sandstone.^[3] The roof is hipped and pierced at either end with large chimneystacks. The interior contains an inglenook fireplace. Cadw notes influences from Lutyens and Voysey,^[3] while the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales considers it "an inspired and unusually distinctive symmetrical Arts-and-Crafts design".^[5] The architectural historian John Newman described Swiss Cottage as "a sweet little thing but not particularly Swiss".^[6]

• Newman, John (2000). Gwent/Monmouthshire. The Buildings of Wales. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-071053-1.
• Whittle, Elisabeth (1990). The Hendre (PDF). Cardiff: Cadw.