Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
5 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
- 51.64133, -2.67629
- Cadw reference
- 2488
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
Situated partly in the narrow part of Bank Street though adjacent to and part of the late C20 remodelling of a wider section.
History
Late C18/early C19 substantially remodelled/rebuilt in late C20 when sash windows were reinstated, door and overlight moved.
Exterior
Former Georgian townhouse, attached at one side of frontage, now offices on 3 floors. Walls rendered with stucco. Three storeys. Three-window range of 12-pane sashes. Ground floor shopfront with central doorway incorporating traceried rectangular overlight. Double-gable side elevation.
Reason for designation
Listed notwithstanding alterations as part of the continuous listed range of upper Bank Street. Group value also with the Towngate range and upper parts of High Street.
Nearby in the register
- 4 Bank StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 3 Bank StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 29 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 28&28aCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.