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
2795
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/10/1988
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
The Gwentlands
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Chepstow
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Chepstow
Easting
353049
Northing
193306
Street Side
NW
Location
S of the main hillside road W of Chepstow near its junction with Bulwark Road - Old Bulwark Road forming a crescent off this. Set in large grounds with drive.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Circa 1830 with substantial additions c 1890. The original smaller building is probably Hardwick Lodge on the map of 1835. In C20 part converted to flats. Former walled garden to rear, redeveloped for housing.
Exterior
Small Regency country house with Victorian additions. Walls stucco rendered; hipped slate roof with narrow brick stacks and projecting eaves with paired brackets. Plan of original rectangular house with entry at E and large later cross wing extending further out E and to W. 2 storey plus basement and attic Entrance frontage has a 3-window range of sashes with thin glazing bars, 16-pane to first floor, and a fourth small sash set back to right hand end linking with the extension. Ground floor splayed bay to left with 15-pane tall sashes. Late Victorian classical Bath stone porch with banded pilasters and arched keyblocked entrance; adjoining it is a contemporary single storey bay with 4 arched windows which extends right to link with the 2-storey cemented extension range. This has a hipped slate roof with pale brick chimneys at eaves, plate glass sash windows. Three window garden front with (added?) block pediments on volutes to ground floor with outer tripartite sashes and central niche; small-pane sashes with thin glazing bars. 3 window rear with wide ashlar splayed bay (also added ca 1890) to ground floor right. 2-storey service range, also with small-pane sashes, tall blue-brick stack and end left bay projecting, also fronts yard on N side of house. N elevation retains lime render and a range of sash windows
Interior
Interior retains panelled shutters, doors and reveals from the original period and some furnishings from the later refurbishment. A cantlevered stair with decorative cast-iron balustrade is probably from the original period.
Reason for designation
Listed as a house with early C19 origins retaining much of its character.
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