Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Bridge Inn
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, designated on 24 March 1975.
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
- 51.64548, -2.67159
- Cadw reference
- 2516
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 250 Chepstow (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1905 · 250 Chepstow (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the river bank, on a corner site with The Back.
History
Probably C18. Originally called The Ship, reflecting its position on the river quayside, the Gwy wharf, it was renamed c 1815 when the cast iron Wye bridge was built adjacent.
Exterior
Inn. White-painted scored roughcast walls, pantile roof with brick end stacks. Three storeys. Three-window range of 4-pane casements under eaves, 12-pane sashes to first floor and to ground floor either side of doorway with half-glazed door. Side elevation to The Back and facing river is 2 storeys, slightly angled to bend and with a hipped roof. First floor has 12-pane sash to right and twin 6/3 pane sashes to left; ground floor has 2 doorways and 15-pane fixed glazed window.
Interior
Interior retains C19 fireplaces; floor partly of large flags is below street level. Exposed lightweight pegged timber framework to the hipped roof on first floor
Reason for designation
Listed as an C18 inn preserving its character. Group value with listed items in the lower part of Bridge Street including the Wye Bridge.
Nearby in the register
- 24a Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bridge HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 26 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- St Anne's HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.