Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
47a 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
- 51.64351, -2.67395
- Cadw reference
- 27114
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
Near the top of the street, attached to the upper side of Castle Terrace.
History
Later Georgian. Formerly a service range to number 47, the two divided in 1980s, at which time a second ground floor archway for garage was created.
Exterior
Large Georgian house, attached at each side. Walls of scored unpainted roughcast; slate roof with brick ridge stack. Three storeys. Wide frontage, a 3-window range of 12-pane sashes with narrow glazing bars in reveals. Ground floor doorway to left with bracketed dentilled hood, 6-panel door; 2 wide recessed openings to right.
Reason for designation
Listed as a larger Georgian townhouse. The Three Tuns Inn, Ashburne House, Numbers 33-50 Bridge Street and Powis Almshouses form a continuous group of listed buildings. Group value with other adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Castle Terrace, numbers 33a-47 consecDomesticunder 1 mi
- 48 Bridge Street including forecourt railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castle Terrace, numbers 33a-47 consecDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castle Terrace, numbers 33a-47 consecDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.