Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
8 Hocker Hill Street
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
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
- 51.64268, -2.67466
- Cadw reference
- 2540
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
The narrow cobbled street runs downhill from the rear corner of Beaufort Square with descending numbering..
History
Late C18. Since listing in 1975 first floor windows have apparently been replaced and a doorway blocked in.
Exterior
Georgian house(s) now used as offices, attached at one side. Walls rendered walls with stucco, C20 machine-tile roof with low end stack. Two storeys. Two window range: first floor has replaced windows, ground floor has bowed 16-pane sash window under narrow cornice at end left and a 16-pane sash. Doorway at end right; former blocked doorway adjacent to bay window.
Reason for designation
Listed as a small C18 townshouse. Group value with other listed buildings in Hocker Hill Street, Middle Street, the upper part of Bridge Street, Upper Church Street.
Nearby in the register
- 9 Hocker Hill StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 12 Middle StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 10 Hocker Hill StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 11 Middle StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.