Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plough 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
- 51.64276, -2.67294
- Cadw reference
- 2593
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
On corner site with Church Road; opposite the W entrance to St Mary's churchyard.
History
Probably early C18. Formerly The Plough Inn which closed in 1939.
Exterior
Former inn, now house and shop. Walls roughcast rendered and painted; steep-pitched machine-tile roof, no stacks. Double pile plan. Two storeys and attic. Two-window range of 4-pane horned sashes Central door with fluted pilasters and pedimented hood. Side elevation has paired gables, a single window range of 4-pane sashes in each, except ground floor left which retains a tripartite sash with stone sill.
Reason for designation
Included as an early C18 house. Group value with other buildings in Upper Church Street.
Nearby in the register
- The First HurdleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Griffin HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 14 St Mary StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Sir Walter Montague AlmshousesHealth and Welfareunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.