Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
12 High Street
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 12 November 2002
- Locality
- Chepstow
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Chepstow
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64137, -2.67555
- Cadw reference
- 27116
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
High Street has ascending numbers downshill on S side to Beaufort Square, then uphill from number 24 on N side.
History
Probably early C19 with bays added later. Photograph of 1902 shows scored render and 12-pane sashes. Was part of Herbert Lewis department store.
Exterior
Georgian/early C20 frontage. Shop with accommodation above, attached at one side. Roughcast with eaves cornice and slate roof. Three storeys. Two-window range: top floor has former sashes replaced in UPVC, first floor has twin shallow rectangular bays with Gothic-arched lights, 3 to front and one each side. Ground floor shopfront with fluted pilasters and brackets supporting the fascia cornice; doorway to right. Long side elevation to lane with some sashes in reveals; at base some of the protective stones formerly installed to prevent wheels scoring the building. Rear windows replaced in UPVC.
Reason for designation
Listed as an originally Georgian building with later added bays and a good shopfront. Group value especially with number 13 adjacent, and other listed buildings in High Street.
Nearby in the register
- 13 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 24&25 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 26&26aCommercialunder 1 mi
- 8 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.