Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Comice House
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
- 51.64381, -2.67063
- Cadw reference
- 2549
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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
Lower Church Street has ascending numbers downhill on E side then uphill from number 23 on W side.
History
Early C19. Formerly part of number 12, the yard behind variously used as a coachworks and gasworks and the loft as a sail loft. List description of 1975 refers to shop window set within arch.
Exterior
Late Georgian building, stepped forward from attached Nos. 13&14; attached at other side also. Walls painted roughcast; machine-tile roof. Gable end frontage. Two storeys. On first floor is a shallow segmental bay window with tripartite small-pane sash and leaded cornice and bracketed sill. On ground floor is a wide raised stone rusticated elliptical archway with double boarded doors.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Nos. 13&14 Lower Church Street including forecourt railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 12 Lower Church Street including railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 11 Lower Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Nos. 9&10 Lower Church Street and attached railings to No. 10Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.