Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
10 Bank Street
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 6 December 1950
- Locality
- Chepstow
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Chepstow
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64182, -2.67573
- Cadw reference
- 2490
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
In the lower part of Bank Street and fronting Bank Square.
History
Probably C18 remodelled in C19 and C20. Photographs of interior in 1988 show Georgian fittings.
Exterior
Georgian townhouse with ground floor shop, attached at each side. Walls are roughcast; hipped slate roof with rendered rear stack behind moulded crowning cornice continuous with number 9. Three storeys. Five-window range of 8-pane sashes in raised stone architraves with cambered heads and keystones. Ground floor has segmental headed archway to passage at left; at centre left is a plate glass double shop front with cornice, round mullions and recessed door entrance; to right is a single window, former sash now plate glass and segmental headed plain doorway with panelled door. Rear elevation of paired short gabled cross wings with sashes.
Interior
Ground floor interior retains a kitchen range, panelled reveals. First floor reception room reported as extending across frontage and retaining shutters.
Reason for designation
Listed as a Georgian townhouse, part of the continuous listed range of lower Bank Street
Nearby in the register
- 11 Bank StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 9 Bank StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Former Bell HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- 13 Bank StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.