Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Birchfield House
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
- 51.63988, -2.67950
- Cadw reference
- 2573
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
Set on the steep hillside rising above the town facing N; this is the upper house of the two.
History
Birchfield House and Blenheim House were built as one property in late C18, Albion House, but divided into two c 1868 This house was the home of Alfred Hillman the printer 1886-1914.
Exterior
One of a pair of later Georgian houses. This house occupies the upper right-hand end bay of an overall 4-bay road frontage with main elevation at right angles overlooking garden to side. Walls are stucco rendered; shallow pitched machine-tile roof. Three storeys. Single window range to road frontage comprises a 2-storey segmental bow window with sashes, upper storey window enlarged in C20. The garden elevation to side has a 3-window range of sashes, deep moulded and swept plinth, central doorway with fluted architrave and console brackets to semicircular hood.
Interior
Believed to retain Regency fittings.
Reason for designation
Listed as one of a pair of Georgian houses.
Nearby in the register
- Blenheim HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- HawkpointDomesticunder 1 mi
- 14 Steep StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Mount PleasantDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.