Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
9 St. Mary's 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
- 51.81248, -2.71392
- Cadw reference
- 85176
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
At the bend in the road part way along this varied residential street leading south-east from the parish church.
History
Late C19, possibly 1890s, shop premises, which has been very little altered.
Exterior
Smooth rendered and painted to street, rough rendered to left return, roof not visible from street. Single bay property, gable end to street. Two storeys, one window. The ground floor has a central canted shopfront with 4-light display windows with slim timber mullions, house entry to left and shop door to right, part-glazed doors with transom lights. Elaborate fascia carried on quoin pilasters with shaped brackets. The fascia has a triple frieze of scallops, hounds teeth and acroterion type embellishments with trefoil decoration. The centre of the fascia carries an oriel window with panelled apron and 2 over 2 pane sash flanked by narrow 1 over 1s with another on each return, moulded cornice and tented roof. Steeply pitched gable with two crow-steps on either side.
Interior
Plain shop premises.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as a probably 1890s shop with an elaborate and well preserved shopfront of definite quality and character.
Nearby in the register
- 6 St. Mary's StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 8 St. Mary's StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Malt House Coffee ShopIndustrialunder 1 mi
- 1 St. Mary's StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.