Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
7 High Street
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 4 July 1966
- Locality
- Chepstow
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Chepstow
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64116, -2.67592
- Cadw reference
- 2528
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
High Street has ascending numbers downhill on S side to Beaufort Square, then uphill from number 24 on N side
History
Possibly a C16/17 origin, the central gable being a recognizably early feature in Chepstow, though altered extensively later. In early C20 a watch and clock maker's business. Early photograph shows a central doorway with main shop window to right and double sash to left with railings in front.
Exterior
Georgian fenestration to shop with accommodation space above, attached at each side. Walls are roughcast; artificial slate roof with central gable and plain bargebaords. Two storeys and attic. Windows are 12-pane sashes with exposed frames: single window to gabled attic , 4 to first floor; full width late C20 shopfront.
Interior
Upper floors unused and no longer accessible from ground floor shop after removal of staircase.
Reason for designation
Listed as a building within the historic centre retaining its character. Group value especially with number 8, and other listed buildings in High Street.
Nearby in the register
- 8 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 29 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 28&28aCommercialunder 1 mi
- 27 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.