Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
8 Lower Church Street including iron railings
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
- 51.64360, -2.67084
- Cadw reference
- 2545
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 50m NE of Baptist Church.
History
Early C19.
Exterior
Late Georgian townhouse, attached at one side, stepped back from nos.9-10. Walls of stucco with raised bands and quoin strip, sillbands, plinth and window surrounds; pantile roof and brick end stacks. Double-pile plan behind narrow frontage. Three storeys and basement. Single window range of 4-pane sashes with exposed frames. Recessed doorway to left under bracketed hood, steps to panelled door. Shallow forecourt with spear railings incorporating light-well to basement.
Reason for designation
Listed as a late Georgian townhouse. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Nos. 9&10 Lower Church Street and attached railings to No. 10Domesticunder 1 mi
- 7 Lower Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 11 Lower Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 12 Lower Church Street including railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.