Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Raglan Post Office
Raglan, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2001
- Locality
- Raglan
- Town
- Raglan
- Community
- Raglan
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.76446, -2.85397
- Cadw reference
- 24726
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Prominently sited on the High Street in Raglan.
History
Early C19 house originally known as Raglan House, by the late C19 developed into a shop, called the Old Shop, advertised on an outbuilding behind No 3 High Street as flour, corn, seed, beer and porter stores. Renovated, the front ground floor made into single shop and the rear converted to flats in late C20 when the Post Office moved here from Castle Street.
Exterior
Early C19 house with later C20 shop front. Painted stucco with hipped slate roof and curved brackets to flat eaves. C20 pink brick end stacks to both ranges of double-pile plan. Two-storey, 4 window range of 12-pane hornless sash windows to front, the ground floor left 2 bays replaced by the C20 shopfront. The rear range is slightly shorter, the recessed W end with original arched main doorway. Reeded jambs and arch, panelled reveals and soffit, traceried fanlight and 4-panel door with raised and fielded panels. Renewed 16-pane sash over and C20 small window left. Rear has 3-window range of renewed 16-pane sashes over centre 16-pane sash and outer 4-12-4-pane tripartite sashes.
Interior
Altered in conversion, ground floor front a single retail unit.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantial early C19 village house retaining much of its external character.
Nearby in the register
- Including former store to rearCommercialunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-boxCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Raglan Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Castell CochDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.