Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Boscobell Chambers including railings
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
- 51.64192, -2.67828
- Cadw reference
- 27103
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
Attached to Boscobell House and sharing the same building line, set back from the road behind a small garden.
History
Railings were cast by Richard Hawkesford who had a forge and ironwork business in Chepstow.
Exterior
Former coach-house range to Boscobell House, now offices. Rendered and painted with pyramidal slate roof behind coped parapet. Single storey. 2 window range of tripartite sashes either side of a central doorway with 6-panelled door and narrow 4-pane overlight.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Boscobell House.
Nearby in the register
- Boscobell HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Forecourt railings and gate to Boscobell HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castle CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden wall to N of Boscobell HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.