Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pike House
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 October 1972
- Locality
- Chepstow
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Chepstow
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64642, -2.68636
- Cadw reference
- 2605
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
Towards the NW town boundary near Crossway Green, on an angled corner site with Kingsmark Lane, directly fronting the main road.
History
Appears as an early-mid C19 toll-house on a turn-pike road, but it was reputedly originally built in 1758 by Valentine Morris of Piercefield and may therefore relate to the early house at The Mount.
Exterior
Tollhouse in Gothick style. Walls are rendered, part roughcast, and painted; slate roof with wide overhanging boarded eaves, decorative bargeboards to gable ends; two stacks each with two chimneys with round brick shafts. Two storeys. Two- window range; first floor has deep set small metal casements with 3 round-headed lights. Ground floor has projecting porch to left with C20 door; at end left a single round-headed light with hoodmould; to right an 8-pane window with an opening casement; the whole lower frontage is covered by a hipped slate-roof verandah. Side elevation has cross window with hoodmould. Side and rear lean-tos.
Reason for designation
Listed as a picturesque Gothick building.
Nearby in the register
- White HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lion Gates and attached Lodges at Chepstow Racecourse (Piercefield Park)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Entrance gates and piers to The MountDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milestone set in the Boundary Wall of Chepstow Racecourse (Piercefield Park)Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.