Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
12 St Mary 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
- 51.64263, -2.67359
- Cadw reference
- 27093
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 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.