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
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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