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
2570
Building Number
1
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/03/1975
Date of Amendment
12/11/2002
Name of Property
Hathaway House
Address
1 Mount Pleasant
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Chepstow
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Chepstow
Easting
353122
Northing
193604
Street Side
W
Location
The top building of the listed hillside terrace of Mount Pleasant which faces out over River Wye.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C19. In 1808 Chepstow Turnpike Trustees decided to build a new road ' for easing the Hill at the Green Dragon Turnpike Gate'. Originally called Moor Hill - a continuation of Moor Street - it was named Mount Pleasant when it was developed for housing in c 1832 and was regarded as 'our fashionable promenade'. Number 1 is though to be the earliest building of the new street.
Exterior
Georgian House, end of terrace and attached at one side. Double pile plan. Walls stucco rendered with rusticated quoins; shallow pitched slate roof with swept eaves and tall narrow roughcast end stacks with slate pots. Two storeys. Three-window range: first floor has 12-pane sashes in reveals, ground floor has tripartite full-length sashes. Central doorway with rusticated surround, arched fanlight, radial glazing bars, replaced door. Plinth. Rear elevation to Steep Street has a 3-window range of replaced glazing. Uphill side extension.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as part of this early C19 terrace. Group value with the other buildings in the terrace.
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