Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
3 Bank Street
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 24 March 1975
- Locality
- Chepstow
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Chepstow
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64127, -2.67642
- Cadw reference
- 2486
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
Attached to the White Lion Inn in the upper part of Bank Street.
History
Probably C18 altered early and late C19.
Exterior
Shop with accommodation used as offices above, attached at each side. Walls of painted brick; slate roof with wide centre ridge stack parallel to frontage; parapet with cornice and dentil blocks. Three storeys. Two-window range of sashes with flat architraves and blocks to sills. Shopfront with cornice, brackets, rounded mullions and recessed left entrance. Doorway with overlight to side passage at right.
Reason for designation
Listed as a Georgian house/shop, part of the continuous listed range of the upper part of Bank Street. Group value also with the Towngate range and the upper part of High Street.
Nearby in the register
- 4 Bank StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- White Lion InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- 5 Bank StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 29 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.