Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
7 Lower Church 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
- 51.64356, -2.67089
- Cadw reference
- 2544
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
About 30m NE of Baptist church.
History
Early C19, probably formerly a shop. The Lower Church Street range does not appear on map of 1801.
Exterior
Cottage, attached at one side. Of painted brick with roughcast upper frontage to road; pantile roof behind high parapet. Masked gable-end frontage, extending to rear in two wings. Two storeys. First floor front window is 2/4 pane sash, ground floor has small- pane segmental bow window with simple wood doorcase to left under shallow hood extending over bay. Long side elevation giving onto passage has segmental-arched sash window with narrow glazing bars and 6-panelled door.
Reason for designation
Listed as an C18 cottage retaining bow window. Group value with adjacent listed buildings
Nearby in the register
- 8 Lower Church Street including iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Nos. 9&10 Lower Church Street and attached railings to No. 10Domesticunder 1 mi
- 37 Lower Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 11 Lower Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.