Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Castle House
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 24 March 1975
- Locality
- Chepstow
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Chepstow
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64360, -2.67352
- Cadw reference
- 2504
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
About 60m below the Powis Almshouses.
History
Probably early C19 frontage to earlier fabric. Ground floor and window heads formerly had engraved rustication and the building had a shopfront.
Exterior
House. Walls are rendered with roughcast and painted; machine tile roof with moulded eaves cornice, low rendered end stack. Three storeys and cellar. Two-window range of sashes in reveals:4/8-pane to top floor, paired 12-pane to first floor, 16-pane to ground floor. Central doorway has 6-panelled door with panelled reveals, pilasters and open pediment hood. Side uphill elevation has a shallow gabled bay with sloping roof, evidence of a formerly attached building; small 2-light windows to 3 storeys. Rear elevation has centre arched first floor sash window and central doorway with panelled door and overlight.
Interior
Interior retains some shutters and panelled reveals.
Reason for designation
Listed as a house with Georgian frontage on earlier fabric. Group value with other listed buildings in the upper part of Bridge Street.
Nearby in the register
- Castle Terrace, numbers 33a-47 consecDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castle Terrace, numbers 33a-47 consecDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castle Terrace, numbers 33a-47 consecDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castle Terrace, numbers 33a-47 consecDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.