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
27102
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/11/2002
Date of Amendment
12/11/2002
Name of Property
The King's Head PH
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Chepstow
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Chepstow
Easting
353241
Northing
193793
Street Side
W
Location
Very near Town Gate and adjacent to the listed range on the corner of Moor Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Rebuilt 1907 after a fire.
Exterior
Hotel, public house in baroque style. Walls of stone and some brick roughcast rendered to front and painted black and white; hipped slate roof with tall brick off-ridge stack; overhanging eaves with modillion cornice. Three storeys. 4-window front. Top floor has 6-pane sashes with painted plain architrave and continuous moulded sillband; first floor has 12-pane sashes with painted corniced surround and continuous sillband. Ground floor is black painted with channelled rustication; a central entrance with eared doorway and coat of arms above in a foliated frame; heavy moulded and swept hood supported on enriched Ionic columns and surmounted on either side by large cartouches. Recessed semicircular windows either side with small-pane upper lights; sash window end left; very deep plinth.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a major town-centre building in a particularly prominent position. Group value with other listed buildings round the Town Gate.
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