Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
26 Bridge Street
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 12 November 2002
- Locality
- Chepstow
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Chepstow
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64560, -2.67191
- Cadw reference
- 27099
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 the river bank and at the end of Wye Bridge.
History
Probably associated with the bridge built 1816, though on an earlier site, medieval fabric having been uncovererd in adjacent archaeological investigation.
Exterior
Small Georgian house. Walls roughcast rendered and painted; shallow-pitched slate and pantile roof with small rendered centre ridge stack. Front faces Bridge Street, parallel cross wings to rear, the inner with main entrance. Bridge Street frontage has a 2-window range of 16-pane sashes to first floor; similar windows in gable end and cross wing. Main doorway faces uphill with pitched slated hood on decorative cast-iron brackets; panelled door with margin glazed surround.
Reason for designation
Listed as a Georgian house in a prominent position. Group value with the bridge and other nearby listed buildings in Bridge Street.
Nearby in the register
- The Bridge InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- 24a Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- St Anne's HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bridge HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.