Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
2 Mount Pleasant
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
- 51.63936, -2.67874
- Cadw reference
- 2568
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
Continuous terrace on the hillside well above and facing out over River Wye, set above and back from the main road. Numbering ascends downhill.
History
Early C19, c 1832. Numbers 2 and 3 at top may be alterations of an existing building originally fronting Steep Street. It is suggested from some internal evidence that wooden balconies formed part of the original design, but these have not survived. Water was stored in cisterns under the houses.
Exterior
Number 2 has rusticated quoins,eaves cornice, replaced door in round-headed rusticated doorway with fanlight with radial glazing. First floor 16-pane sashes with tiny balconies, ground floor replaced French windows.
Reason for designation
Listed as an early C19 terrace retaining overall character.
Nearby in the register
- 3 Mount PleasantDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hathaway HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Mount PleasantDomesticunder 1 mi
- Front garden gate at HathawayGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.