Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Lord Nelson House
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, designated on 21 August 1973.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 21 August 1973
- Locality
- Chepstow
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Chepstow
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64468, -2.66976
- Cadw reference
- 2485
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 250 Chepstow (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1905 · 250 Chepstow (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Main frontage faces up Lower Church Street, sideways on to The Back, bordered by low courtyard wall.
History
C18/early C19. Formerly The Lord Nelson Inn.
Exterior
Georgian house, former inn, attached at one side. Walls are roughcast rendered and painted with raised rendered quoins and window surrounds; slate roof with brick end stacks. Three storeys. Sash windows with channelled architraves and voussoirs; all 6/2 panes. Second floor has a 2-window range; 3 to first floor. Late C19 flat-roofed extension to whole of ground floor; two paired windows and panelled door all with multipane upper lights, within a framework of narrow panelled pilasters and fascia. Attached at right to is a former separate cottage range of smaller dimensions, 2 storeys, with hipped pantile roof and retaining some 12-pane sashes. Main house is attached at rear to a former warehouse range.
Reason for designation
Listed as an C18 former inn retaining its character. Group value with other listed houses in The Back and St Ann's Street.
Nearby in the register
- The Boat InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Wye HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Warehouse adjoining N Wye HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Stuart House and attached former warehouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.