Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
15 Church Road
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
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 24 March 1975
- Locality
- Chepstow
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Chepstow
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64335, -2.67146
- Cadw reference
- 2526
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 a sharp bend, the junction between Church Road and Lower Church Street, opposite the NE corner of St Mary's churchyard.
History
Early - mid C19. Listing description of 1973 refers to shop windows. When render was removed later C20, a blocked carriage arch, further doorway and windows were visible. Appears on first edition OS map surveyed 1879, but not on town map of 1835.
Exterior
House, formerly two dwellings. Walls rendered and painted; Welsh slate roof with replaced brick ridge and end stacks. Curved frontage round bend, in two units. Two storeys. Left unit has a 2-window range: 12-pane sash in reveals to right, paired 8-pane sashes to left; paired 12-pane sashes to ground floor either side of central doorway in plain case, 4-panelled door. Right unit has a 3-window range , centre blocked on first floor; 12-pane sashes to each floor to right and 2-storey canted bay with sashes to each face to left. Centre doorway with bracketed hood, overlight, fluted architrave, 4-panelled door. Plinth to lower unit.
Reason for designation
Listed as a prominent late Georgian building with group value with listed buildings in Lower Church Street and the Church of St Mary.
Nearby in the register
- 37 Lower Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 7 Lower Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 8 Lower Church Street including iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Nos. 9&10 Lower Church Street and attached railings to No. 10Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.