Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
White House
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, designated on 12 November 2002.
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
- 51.64614, -2.68452
- Cadw reference
- 27108
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 N edge of the town, on rising ground, set back from the road behind a lawned garden.
History
Circa 1935, architect FR Bates of Newport. Original glazing would have been metal casements.
Exterior
House in Modernist style. Wholly rendered and white painted. Flat roof - believed to be copper-covered - with narrow coping; roof terrace, terrace room with chimney, further external stack right. Irregular plan of main 3 bay frontage, stepped back single bay wing to right attached to further lower wing, front porch, stepped rear elevation. Main frontage has a 3-window range of prominently horizontal casements with replaced glazing, long close-set hoods, tiled sills; further ground floor window set within angle to left. Flat-roofed single-storey front porch with side lights.
Reason for designation
Listed as a house in Modern Movement style, rare in Wales, by well-known local architect
Nearby in the register
- Pike HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Entrance gates and piers to The MountDomesticunder 1 mi
- The MountDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lion Gates and attached Lodges at Chepstow Racecourse (Piercefield Park)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.