Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
69 Frogmore Street
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 10 November 2005
- Locality
- Abergavenny
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Abergavenny
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.82287, -3.01948
- Cadw reference
- 86815
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
Situated on the main commercial street which runs from south-east to north-west across Abergavenny.
History
Early C19 frontage with no indication of older fabric and is possibly rebuilt. May have been built together with No. 68 adjoining but has slightly different spaces between the windows. C20 shopfront.
Exterior
Rough rendered and painted front with a Welsh slate roof. Double depth plan. Three storeys, two windows. Modern shopfront with central entrance, flanking single pane display windows. Through archway to left on line of town wall and marking the position of the North Gate. First floor has 6 over 6 pane sashes and second floor has 3 over 6 panes ones, all are replacement joinery. Plain roof with stack on left gable.
Rear elevation both plain and altered.
Interior
Interior not seen at resurvey except that the ground floor has few visible historic features.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as an early/mid C19 frontage retaining its character, which has strong group value with other historic buildings in the centre of Abergavenny.
Nearby in the register
- 68 Frogmore StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 70 Frogmore StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 67 Frogmore StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 1 Nevill StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.