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
2538
Building Number
30
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/03/1975
Date of Amendment
12/11/2002
Name of Property
30 High Street
Address
30 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Chepstow
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Chepstow
Easting
353282
Northing
193803
Street Side
N
Location
On a corner site facing into Bank Street with side elevation fronting High Street and adjoining the Town Gate.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Early C19 in its present form but on an early site as it adjoins medieval town gate. Shown in a photograph of early 1900s with a railed balcony outside the first floor windows facing downhill and a wide shopfront across both frontages. For nearly a century it was a boot and shoe shop.
Exterior
Shop and offices with living accommodation above, in Regency style. Scored render; moulded cornice to parapet in front of hipped slate roof with tall rendered stack with slate pot. Three storeys and cellar. Bank Street elevation has 2-window range of 6-pane sashes with narrow glazing bars in reveals, larger to first floor. Elegant C19 shopfront with slender mullions, angled cornice entablature supported by cast-iron pier; recessed doorway in angle with boarded soffit and further piers inside. High Street frontage has a single window range blocked at second floor and ground floor end left doorway with 4-panelled door and 3- pane overlight. Plinth of painted Bathstone.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a Regency shop building with good later C19 shopfront in a prominent and historic position.
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