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
2573
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/03/1975
Date of Amendment
12/11/2002
Name of Property
Birchfield House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Chepstow
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Chepstow
Easting
353074
Northing
193672
Street Side
S
Location
Set on the steep hillside rising above the town facing N; this is the upper house of the two.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Birchfield House and Blenheim House were built as one property in late C18, Albion House, but divided into two c 1868 This house was the home of Alfred Hillman the printer 1886-1914.
Exterior
One of a pair of later Georgian houses. This house occupies the upper right-hand end bay of an overall 4-bay road frontage with main elevation at right angles overlooking garden to side. Walls are stucco rendered; shallow pitched machine-tile roof. Three storeys. Single window range to road frontage comprises a 2-storey segmental bow window with sashes, upper storey window enlarged in C20. The garden elevation to side has a 3-window range of sashes, deep moulded and swept plinth, central doorway with fluted architrave and console brackets to semicircular hood.
Interior
Believed to retain Regency fittings.
Reason for designation
Listed as one of a pair of Georgian houses.
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