Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
3 Monnow Street
Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 10 August 2005
- Locality
- Monmouth
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Monmouth
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.81183, -2.71623
- Cadw reference
- 85095
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
On Monmouth's principal commercial street which leads out of the town square going south-west to Monnow Bridge.
History
Early C19 front on a possibly earlier structure, shop-front added in late C19.
Exterior
Rendered and painted front with a Welsh slate roof. Double depth plan. Three storeys, two windows. The ground floor has a late C19 shopfront with a slim stall-riser, narrow pilasters, overhanging cornice on brackets, window with five vertical panes separated by slim timber mullions. The first floor has 6 over 6 pane sashes, the second floor has 3 over 6. Plain roof with quite a steep pitch. Rear elevation not seen.
Interior
Interior not seen at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as part of a varied group of historic buildings in the Monmouth town centre.
Nearby in the register
- 5 Monnow StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 1a Monnow StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 6 Monnow StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 1 Monnow StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.