Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cornwall House
Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 27 June 1952
- Locality
- Monmouth
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Monmouth
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.81058, -2.71745
- Cadw reference
- 85142
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
Cornwall House occupies the site of three burgage plots which had already been combined by the C16 when an inn stood here. By 1678 a building called Great House stood here. The agent of the Duke of Beaufort, Henry Burgh, rebuilt the house in 1752, and the brick front facing Chippenham is probably of this date. At the turn of the C18 and C19, a rear block was remodelled as the house was "turned round" to face Monnow Street. This block incorporates or re-uses earlier C18 material including windows with thick glazing bars. The house was divided into two around 1860, and the top storey of the Monnow Street front may date from then. No.58 remains in domestic use.
Interior
Only the ground floor was seen at resurvey (July 2004). The front room has full height panelling which is apparently original and also suggests that the house dates from c1730. The staircase is lit from the side wall. It is an early C19 one with continuous mahogany handrail. The rear room has what may be an original cornice. Some C18 joinery.
Reason for designation
Included and highly graded for its special interest as as one of the finest individual houses in the Monmouth town centre.
Nearby in the register
- 56 Monnow StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Front Garden Railings & Gates to Nos.56 & 58Gardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- 62 Monnow StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 64 Monnow StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.