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
2601
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/03/1975
Date of Amendment
12/11/2002
Name of Property
Castledale and York House including forecourt railings and gates
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Chepstow
Town
chepstow
Locality
Chepstow
Easting
353081
Northing
193929
Street Side
W
Location
In the centre of the range of 5 listed buildings, stepped back from Fairlight.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early Victorian. York House was originally Wyecliffe but was re-named following a visit to the Castle and Wyndcliff by the Duchess of York during a Royal visit in 1900 when she took shelter here from enthusiastic crowds
Exterior
Pair of townhouses in heavy classicising style, now offices, attached at one side. Walls rendered with stucco; slate roof incorporating 4 cambered-headed dormers with casement windows; tall narrow chimney stack straddles roof at division of houses. Three storeys and basement. Six-window range (three per house), all with bracketed sills. Second floor windows are 4-pane sashes in reveals. First floor has tall French windows, the inner ones (two on each house) opening onto balconies with ornamental cast-iron hand rails and supported by brackets. Ground floor windows and doors have semi-circular heads and moulded string carried over window and door heads and between windows bracketed at impost level. Moulded string cornice at first floor level on enriched console brackets and similar eaves cornice, the brackets spaced in pairs. Forecourt railings have spear finials, gates to each side, gate-piers with pyramidal caps and nosed stone steps up to each door and down to basement. To rear, only York House retains its sash windows with glazing bars.
Interior
Staircases rise parallel to frontage behind the front ground floor room; stick balusters but with a turned newel? post. Some panelled shutters and reveals retained. 4-panelled doors.
Reason for designation
Listed as a pair of C19 townhouses of unusual design. Group value with other listed buildings in this range.
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