Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
8 High Street
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 7 April 1966
- Locality
- Chepstow
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Chepstow
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64122, -2.67585
- Cadw reference
- 2529
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 E side to Beaufort Square, then uphill from number 24 on N side
History
Probably C18 remodelled in C19. Shopfront reported as dated 1871. Formerly a tobacconist whose products were listed on the side panels of the shopfront.
Exterior
Georgian/Victorian frontage, shop on two storeys, attached at each side. Walls of scored render with pantile roof well set back behind eaves cornice. First floor has two canted bay windows with plate glass sashes and pitched slate roofs. Panelled shop front has slender mullions and dentilled cornice, bracketed over side door to right which is recessed with panelled part-glazed door. Shopfront door at centre with overlight.
Interior
At first floor one large chamfered and stopped beam parallel with frontage. Boxed in staircase.
Reason for designation
Listed as a building within the historic centre retaining its character. Group value especially with number 7, and other listed buildings in High Street
Nearby in the register
- 7 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 28&28aCommercialunder 1 mi
- 29 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 27 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.