Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stratheden
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
- 51.63769, -2.68054
- Cadw reference
- 27120
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 the back of Hardwick Hill House and facing uphill; set above the road and reached by a short drive.
History
Early - mid C19. Part of the development of the area following the establishing of the new road leading W out of Chepstow.
Exterior
Part of the group of 4 Regency style buildings, this one the second largest after Hardwick Hill House and considerably stepped up from numbers 2 and 3, and higher also than Hardwick Hill House. Roughcast rendered and painted; slate roof behind eaves cornice with narrow rendered stacks. 3 storeys and cellar. 3-window range of sashes with narrow glazing bars in reveals, 9-pane to top floor and 12-pane below. Central doorway with trellis porch on a plinth, double 6-panelled door with reeded architrave, decorative overlight incorporating a roundel. Plinth. 2-storey side wing with hipped roof stepped down to right with modern extension to front.
Interior
Interior believed to retain panelled shutters and reveals.
Reason for designation
Listed as a Georgian house, part of a group. Group value with others in the group.
Nearby in the register
- 2 and 3 Hardwick HillDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hardwick Hill HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lower HardwickDomesticunder 1 mi
- High TreesCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.