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
27118
Building Number
1
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/11/2002
Date of Amendment
23/01/2003
Name of Property
Hardwick Hill House
Address
1 Hardwick Hill
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Chepstow
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Chepstow
Easting
353013
Northing
193433
Street Side
S
Location
Towards the top of the hill set above the road, the main building in a group of four dwellings.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early to mid C19, part of the development of the area following the establishing of the new road leading W
out of Chepstow, although a builders'' token dated 1795 was found during C20 renovations. Formerly
called Oakfield (comparable with neighbouring Ashfield) but on early map appears as Hardwick Hall.
Home of Baron du Bois de Ferrieres, art collector , whose collection furnished Cheltenham Art Gallery.
Was a private school from 1930s until later C20. Photograph from this period shows the side wing with
trelliswork across frontage, a first floor balcony with balustrade to the main wing and plate glass sashes
and casements to the bays.
Exterior
Late Georgian house. The impression is of a detached house, but it forms part of a complex of four with other dwellings attached to side and rear. Walls rendered, channelled to ground floor; hipped slate roof with eaves cornice, rendered stacks. 3 storeys. Three-window range of 12-pane sashes. Ground floor has deep canted bay to left and deep square bay to right with multipane glazing, not original. A hood with boarded soffit extends across the whole ground floor supported at ends by Tuscan columns. Central 6-panelled double door with reeded architrave, plain fanlight and channelled voussoirs. Stepped down to left a 2-storey wing, a 2-window range of 6-pane sashes and doorway with hood and 6-panelled door, stepped back wing at end left with blind opening. Side elevation onto road (N) is a single window range and attached to the frontage of No.2.
Interior
Retains, at rear of house, fine early C19 staircase.
Reason for designation
Listed as a Georgian house, part of a group. Group value with others in the group.
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