Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
9&10 St Mary Street
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
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
- 51.64252, -2.67379
- Cadw reference
- 2581
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
St Mary Street has ascending numbers downhill on S side to no.14 then uphill on N side to no. 25
History
C18 with early C20 shopfront.
Exterior
Large Georgian townhouse/shop, now single shop with accommodation above, attached at each side. Walls of stone rubble roughcast rendered, joint-lines barely visible; slate roof with brick end stacks. Three storeys. Five-window range of 8-pane sashes in moulded exposed frames with segmental-arched heads. Whole length of ground floor occupied by unusual projecting early C20 shop front with three windows and two recessed angled entrance doors. This has paired heavy twinned console brackets to end pilasters, tiled plinth, unusual channelled polygonal corner mullions, narrow frieze with ventilator panels, panelled soffit; marble chequer-pattern steps.
Reason for designation
Listed as C18 buildings, part of this historic central street which retains its character. Group value with other listed buildings in the street.
Nearby in the register
- 7&8 St Mary StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 11 St Mary StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 21 St Mary StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 22 St Mary StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.