Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
2318
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/08/1974
Date of Amendment
10/08/2005
Name of Property
Shambles
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Monmouth
Town
Monmouth
Locality
Monmouth
Easting
350816
Northing
212998
Street Side
NW
Location
Part of the group on the principal street leading north and east from the town square.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Constructed by G V Maddox before the building of Priory Street c1837 on the east bank of the River Monnow which was very steep at this point. They served as supports for Priory Street and The Market House and were used as the Shambles being both slaughter houses and individual butcher's shops. It was the first step in the Monmouth street improvements of the 1830s designed to reduce the traffic in Church Street to an acceptable level.
Exterior
Built of coursed and squared local red sandstone with brick vaults. Comprises an arcade of twenty-four tall narrow arches with battered buttresses between, impost blocks and semi-circular arches. Each arch contains a doorway with rectangular vent above, segmental head, lunette with stone cill above this. Dentil cornice carries the street balustrade above. The arcade is approached by a ramp at the north-east end, and at the south west end there is a steep flight of stone steps up to the rear of the former Market Hall.
Interior
Spaces behind the arcade under the vaults carrying Priory Street were originally allocated to stall holders in the meat trade, now unused and derelict along with surviving slaughterhouse fixtures.
Reason for designation
Included in a higher grade for its exceptional interest as part of an important piece of early C19 town planning in the Monmouth centre and as a (probably) unique surviving Shambles in GB from the period.
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