Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
5 Monnow Street
Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, designated on 10 August 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 10 August 2005
- Locality
- Monmouth
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Monmouth
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.81179, -2.71629
- Cadw reference
- 85133
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 233 Monmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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 fabric, re-windowed in the C20.
Exterior
Rendered and painted front with a Welsh slate roof. Double depth plan. Three storeys, one window. Plain late C19 shopfront with entrance on right. First floor has a canted oriel with a 4-light mullion-and-transom window in the centre, with a 4 pane sash below the transom and 2 panes above. The upper floor has a paired 2 over 4 pane sash. 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
- 3 Monnow StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 1a Monnow StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 6 Monnow StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 13 Monnow StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.