Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
12 Middle Street
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 12 June 1950
- Locality
- Chepstow
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Chepstow
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64262, -2.67450
- Cadw reference
- 2557
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 major house in Middle Street, in the middle of the range.
History
C18. Former listing description (1975) refers to a shopfront and tall brick stacks.
Exterior
Large double-fronted townhouse, attached at both sides and sharing same roofline, but not roof pitch, with number 11. Of stone rendered with scored pebbledash; machine-tile roof to front and slate to back, with low end stack. Three storeys. Three-window range of paired sashes in common exposed wood frames with central mullion, in shallow reveal with scored cement surrounds; centre window on first floor has semi-circular head. Ground floor has wide central square-headed doorway in splayed recess, wooden door case with fluted pilasters enclosing oblong panel above architrave and supporting shallow moulded hood; three steps up to massive studded boarded door with ornamental knocker. Plinth. rear elevation has all small-pane casement windows and central doorway with replaced door.
Reason for designation
Listed as a Georgian town house with group value with other listed buildings in Middle Street, especially number 11, Hocker Hill Street, the lower part of Beaufort Square.
Nearby in the register
- 11 Middle StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 8 Hocker Hill StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 9 Hocker Hill StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 10 Middle StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.