Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Castle Terrace, numbers 33a-47 consec
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 March 1955
- Locality
- Chepstow
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Chepstow
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64368, -2.67373
- Cadw reference
- 27144
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
Continuous sloping terrace between Ashburne House at the bottom of the hill and number 48 at top.
History
Later Georgian. Believed to have been built in two stages, the upper section, defined by rear pilasters to numbers 40 and 47, c 1805. Number 33a at lower end is later, infilling a former passage. Every second house had a downpipe for collecting water in cellar cisterns.
Exterior
Has artificial slate roof, altered first and second floor windows and door.
Reason for designation
Listed II*as a virtually complete and picturesque Georgian terrace. The terrace together with The Three Tuns PH, Ashburne House and Powis Almshouses forms a continuous group of listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Castle Terrace, numbers 33a-47 consecDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castle Terrace, numbers 33a-47 consecDomesticunder 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.