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
27134
Building Number
34
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/03/1955
Date of Amendment
12/11/2002
Name of Property
Castle Terrace, numbers 33a-47 consec
Address
34 Bridge Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Chepstow
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Chepstow
Easting
353506
Northing
194122
Street Side
Location
Continuous sloping terrace between Ashburne House at the bottom of the hill and number 48 at top.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Later Georgian. Believed to have been built in two stages, the upper section, defined by rear pilasters to numbers 40 and 47, c 1805. Number 33a at lower end is later, infilling a former passage. Every second house had a downpipe for collecting water in cellar cisterns.
Exterior
Has a pantile roof.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed II*as a virtually complete and picturesque Georgian terrace. The terrace together with The Three Tuns PH, Ashburne House and Powis Almshouses forms a continuous group of listed buildings.
Group Description
Castle Terrace, nos.33a-47 (consec) Bridge Street
Terrace of Georgian houses, stepped up slope of road between Wye Bridge and town centre. Each house is single fronted, three storeys and cellar, one window to each floor. Scored and painted roughcast walls, slate roofs, narrow brick stacks at divisions. Upper floor windows are generally 3/6-pane sashes in reveals, first floor windows are generally 6/6-pane sashes; ground floor windows are generally segmental bows with small panes, fixed but incorporating single-pane opening lights; deep plinths below. Panelled doors in wooden door cases to left, some with rectangular overlights, shallow wooden hoods on brackets, most enriched with fret. The effect is symmetrical notwithstanding some alterations of detail and differences in dimensions.
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