Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
12 St Mary Street
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, designated on 24 March 1975.
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
- 51.64263, -2.67359
- Cadw reference
- 27093
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 250 Chepstow (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1905 · 250 Chepstow (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Towards the lower end of the street.
History
Built 1905, architect FEL Harris, of the Cooperative Wholesale Society of Manchester, with extensive stores to rear.
Exterior
Shop and cafe. A tall building of painted brick with the gable facade of a mansard slate roof, boarded eaves, brick end stack. Decorative black and white 3-storey frontage. Within gable a Venetian window with semicircular central light with keystone and columns, black and white painted voussoirs and quoins. Under a deep convex cornice are the 2 full height first floor bow windows, 3-light cross-framed with latticed upper casements, fronted by swept railed iron balconies. Deep double-fronted shop front with moulded cornice, slender corner mullions, divided upper lights, tiled plinth, wide end pilasters with tapering panels, boarded soffit, terrazzo step to recessed central doorway.
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusually decorative early C20 building and an integral part of this streetscape. Group value with other listed buildings in the street.
Nearby in the register
- 13 St Mary StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 11 St Mary StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 9&10 St Mary StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 14 St Mary StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.