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
85177
Building Number
9
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/08/2005
Date of Amendment
10/08/2005
Name of Property
9 Whitecross Street
Address
9 Whitecross Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Monmouth
Town
Monmouth
Locality
Monmouth
Easting
350895
Northing
212932
Street Side
S
Location
On the street continuing Church Street east out of the town centre.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Early C18 house pair, probably c1725, with alterations including a shopfront in c1900.
Exterior
More altered than No. 7. The ground floor has a probably early C20 shopfront with side pilasters, fascia, two display windows with a recessed central door, house door on left. First floor has a 4 light oriel in place of the paired sashes, otherwise plate glass sashes.
Rear elevation has large pane sash windows.
Interior
Interior not seen at resurvey, but the ground floor has been greatly altered by being a shop and the staircase has been replaced.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as one of an early C18 pair of houses of definite character which is part of the important group of historic buildings near St. Mary's Church.
Group Description
Nos. 7 and 9 Whitecross Street
Rendered and painted, probably over brick, but No. 7 is lined out as ashlar while No. 9 is smooth rendered; Welsh slate roofs. Pair of double depth plan houses with dooorways on the outside of the pair. Two storeys, three windows each, narrow ones on the outside and paired wider ones in the centre. Quoins and floor bands. Roof hipped overall with one dormer to each 2 + 2 pane casements. The windows are mostly sashes, but see individua house descriptions.
The rear elevation shows that each house has a hipped wing running back from the main street range. Variously altered windows. Large red brick stack set in the valley between the two rear wings.
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