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
85123
Building Number
4
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/06/1952
Date of Amendment
10/08/2005
Name of Property
4 Priory Street
Address
4 Priory Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Monmouth
Town
Monmouth
Locality
Easting
350788
Northing
212937
Street Side
E
Location
Part of the group on the principal street leading north and east from the town square.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Early/mid C19, built soon after 1837 by G V Maddox as a part of the Monmouth street improvements of the time.
Exterior
Interior
Interior not seen at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included in a higher grade for its exceptional architectural interest as part of an important piece of early C19 town planning in the Monmouth centre.
Group Description
Nos. 1-6 (consec) Priory Street
Stucco fronted and painted with Welsh slate roofs behind parapets and these are not visible from street level. Convex terrace of three storey. double depth houses, some of which had shops on the ground floor from the first. Nineteen windows in all, arranged 5 : 3 : 3 : 3 : 5 on the first floor. The ground floor has four shopfronts, Nos. 1-4 consec; the arched entrance to White Swan Court, and tripartite 6 over 6 pane sashes, Nos. 5 & 6. The shopfronts have fluted strip pilaster framing and there are plain Doric pilasters framing No. 3 and the entry to White Swan Court, while Nos. 5 & 6 have single pilasters at either end and three paired pilasters framing the tripartite windows. The entry to White Swan Court has a fine pair of original double panelled doors. Six panel doors with arched heads with impost blocks and radiating fanlights. Continuous cornice to ground floor the top of which forms a cill band to the first floor windows. These are large 6 over 9 pane sashes with blind boxes to those of No. 4. No. 3 and the entry to White Swan Court have giant pilasters through first and second floors with Composite capitals. Cill band to second floor windows which are all 3 over 3 pane sashes. Cornice band and parapet band; No 4 has extra attic floor with pediment and Diocletian lunette window. The other houses each have one small flat topped dormer visible behind the parapet.
Rear elevations of Nos. 1-3 not seen. White Swan Court abuts No. 4. The entry to White Swan Court is flat topped and is framed by plain pilasters. The first floor has a 4-light window 4 panes high in an arched recess, tripartite sash above this. Nos. 5 and 6 have various plain sashes as before.
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