Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
1 Bank 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
- 51.64112, -2.67656
- Cadw reference
- 27090
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
Part of the Towngate range and attached to number 30 High Street, overlooking the square at the top of Bank Street
History
Early C19 on an earlier site. Bank Street was the original main road, formerly regarded as part of Hocker Hill Street and later called Back Street. The square which this and other low numbered buildings face was called Pye Corner. Shopfront is a C20 interpretation of traditional style.
Exterior
Shop with accommodation above, attached on both sides. Walls are roughcast rendered, deep moulded eaves cornice, pyramidal pantile roof. Two storeys. Single window range: 4/4-pane sash in exposed frame to top floor, 8/8-pane sash to first floor. Ground floor has projecting shopfront bay with billet moulding to fascia and brackets.
Interior
Shop on 3 storeys. Rafters visible in upper storey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a Georgian house/shop, part of the continuous listed range of Bank Street. Group value with the towngate and upper parts of High Street.
Nearby in the register
- 30 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Town Gate HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- White Lion InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Town GateDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.