Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Griffin House
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 November 1972
- Locality
- Chepstow
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Chepstow
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64287, -2.67325
- Cadw reference
- 2591
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
Atttached to the Montague Almshouses, opposite the junction with St Mary Street.
History
Late C18/early C19.
Exterior
Later Georgian townhouse, attached at each side. Walls rendered with joint-lined stucco; slate roof with wooden eaves cornice. Three storeys. Two-window range of 12-pane sashes with thick glazing bars in reveals, tripartite to ground floor left. Semi-circular headed doorway up two steps to right has 6-panelled door, arched fanlight with radial glazing, wooden doorcase with open triangular pediment on brackets, side pilasters. Deep plinth. Large external water cistern to rear.
Interior
Interior reported as retaining a Chinoiserie-inspired staircase.
Reason for designation
Listed as a late-Georgian townhouse. Group value with other listed buildings in Upper Church Street and St Mary Street.
Nearby in the register
- The First HurdleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Sir Walter Montague AlmshousesHealth and Welfareunder 1 mi
- 14 St Mary StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Plough HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.