Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
2534
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/03/1975
Date of Amendment
12/11/2002
Name of Property
26&26a
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Chepstow
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Chepstow
Easting
353325
Northing
193845
Street Side
N
Location
High Street has ascending numbers downhill on S side to Beaufort Square then from number 24 uphill on N side.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Early C19 in its present form though signs of earlier fabric and a different orientation.
Exterior
Georgian building with two separate shopfronts and accommodation space above. Rendered with high coped parapet in front of concrete-tiled roof. Three storeys and basement. Three windows to top floor of 6/6-pane sashes with architraves, centre blocked; 5 windows to first floor of 8/12 sashes with architraves. Plate-glass shopfronts, projecting to right, flush and boarded-up to left with adjacent narrow panelled door retaining 4-pane overlight. Rear elevation to Bank Street has a 3-window range of sashes, central round-arched doorway flanked by boarded windows.
Interior
Cellar has reportedly a corbelled roof.
Reason for designation
Listed as a building within the historic centre retaining its basically Gerogian character. Numbers 23-28 form a continuous group. Group value with other listed buildings in High Street and Bank Street.
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