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
2606
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/03/1975
Date of Amendment
12/11/2002
Name of Property
St Lawrence House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Chepstow
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Chepstow - St Lawrence
Easting
352266
Northing
193451
Street Side
S
Location
On the W outskirts of the town, across the Wye Valley Link Road. Formerly reached by a gated drive from E, now from rear courtyard.
Description
Broad Class
Institutional
Period
History
C18. Built by Thomas Fydell a Chepstow merchant, possibly in the year in which he was sherriff, 1772. Site of an earlier house and the avenue of trees was recognised as a pilot's mark in C17. Range of former service buildings including lodge now modernised and converted to separate private dwellings; parts may pre-date the main house, especially the range with steep-pitched roof with large slates in diminishing courses and wide external stack of narrow bricks. When listed the house was a Youth Hostel, now returned to private ownership.
Exterior
Large Georgian house. Walls stucco rendered and painted; hipped slate roof behind high parapet; narrow rendered off-ridge and lateral stacks. Two storeys. Entrance frontage has raised rendered quoins, platband and voussoirs with keystone; blind panels in parapet above 2 bays. Three- window range of small-pane sashes, large and tri-partite to the outer bays. Off centre left is a porch with round arched fanlight with radial glazing set partly within the open pediment. Set back to left a hipped roofed wing. The south elevation was remodelled in the mid C19. The house and associated ranges and gardens are bordered on the roadside by a high stone wall, swept down to a part-railed entrance bay with gate-piers.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a late C18 house retaining much of its character.
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