Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gatepiers and forecourt wall at Gwy 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
- 51.64467, -2.67254
- Cadw reference
- 2510
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
Fronting Bridge Street and creating a courtyard in front of Gwy House.
History
Early C19. Photograph of 1916 shows railings on the forecourt wall to height of piers.
Exterior
Gate piers of tooled or coursed stone with moulded caps, one tall and two lower, joined by low stone wall with moulded coping. No gates to gaps.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Gwy House.
Nearby in the register
- Gwy House (Chepstow Museum)Health and Welfareunder 1 mi
- Castle View HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- 15 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 14 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.