Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
26&26a
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
- 51.64146, -2.67590
- Cadw reference
- 2534
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
High Street has ascending numbers downhill on S side to Beaufort Square then from number 24 uphill on N side.
History
Early C19 in its present form though signs of earlier fabric and a different orientation.
Exterior
Georgian building with two separate shopfronts and accommodation space above. Rendered with high coped parapet in front of concrete-tiled roof. Three storeys and basement. Three windows to top floor of 6/6-pane sashes with architraves, centre blocked; 5 windows to first floor of 8/12 sashes with architraves. Plate-glass shopfronts, projecting to right, flush and boarded-up to left with adjacent narrow panelled door retaining 4-pane overlight. Rear elevation to Bank Street has a 3-window range of sashes, central round-arched doorway flanked by boarded windows.
Interior
Cellar has reportedly a corbelled roof.
Reason for designation
Listed as a building within the historic centre retaining its basically Gerogian character. Numbers 23-28 form a continuous group. Group value with other listed buildings in High Street and Bank Street.
Nearby in the register
- 27 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 24&25 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 28&28aCommercialunder 1 mi
- Former Lloyds Bank ChambersCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.