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
2505
Building Number
10
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/03/1955
Date of Amendment
12/11/2002
Name of Property
Cromwell House
Address
10 Bridge Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Chepstow
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Chepstow
Easting
353532
Northing
194133
Street Side
E
Location
Opposite the Three Tuns Inn, adjacent to former school.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably C16 origin with later remodelling. Name reflects claim that Oliver Cromwell slept in the house after taking Chepstow in 1648.
Exterior
Detached house, shop on ground floor. Pebbledashed and painted with pantiled roof. 3 storeys, end gable fronting road with bargeboards and applied timber-framing in gable; battered. 2-window range of cambered headed 9/6 pane sashes with thick glazing bars and exposed frames to first and ground floor; casement window to gable. Doorway at end left is square-headed with plain oak door, iron hinges and hood. Plinth, chamfered right corner. Stepped down in 2 wings to rear.
Interior
Interior retains ground floor stone Tudor fireplace with flat arch and spandrels; 2 chamfered beams parallel with frontage, flag floor. Roof with wind-braces believed to be retained.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare early surviving house with interesting historical associations. Group value with other listed buildings in the upper part of Bridge Street.
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