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
2529
Building Number
8  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
07/04/1966  
Date of Amendment
12/11/2002  
Name of Property
8 High Street  
Address
8 High Street  

Location


Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire  
Community
Chepstow  
Town
Chepstow  
Locality
Chepstow  
Easting
353328  
Northing
193818  
Street Side
S  
Location
High Street has ascending numbers downhill on E side to Beaufort Square, then uphill from number 24 on N side  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
Probably C18 remodelled in C19. Shopfront reported as dated 1871. Formerly a tobacconist whose products were listed on the side panels of the shopfront.  

Exterior
Georgian/Victorian frontage, shop on two storeys, attached at each side. Walls of scored render with pantile roof well set back behind eaves cornice. First floor has two canted bay windows with plate glass sashes and pitched slate roofs. Panelled shop front has slender mullions and dentilled cornice, bracketed over side door to right which is recessed with panelled part-glazed door. Shopfront door at centre with overlight.  

Interior
At first floor one large chamfered and stopped beam parallel with frontage. Boxed in staircase.  

Reason for designation
Listed as a building within the historic centre retaining its character. Group value especially with number 7, and other listed buildings in High Street  

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