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
86839
Building Number
23A
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/11/2005
Date of Amendment
10/11/2005
Name of Property
23A Cross Street
Address
23A Cross Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Abergavenny
Town
Abergavenny
Locality
Abergavenny
Easting
330020
Northing
214033
Street Side
SW
Location
Situated on the main commercial street which runs from south-east to north-west across Abergavenny.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Late C19, probably 1890s and possibly designed by E A Johnson. They have been very little altered apart from a small loss of detail.
Exterior
Rear elevation not inspected.
Interior
Interior not inspected at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as a part of a late C19 commercial development of definite character designed probably by the local architect E A Johnson and which has been altered very little.
Group Description
Nos. 22, 23 and 23A (consec) Cross Street
Built of yellow brick with some red brick dressings and terracotta details, natural slate roof with yellow brick stacks. Double depth plan with shops below and houses above from the first. Two storeys and attics with seven bays to the whole, 2 + 2 + 3. Two shopfronts with entries to the left, and one with a centre entry (No. 22) and house entries to the right of Nos. 22 and 23 which are the right and centre of the block. The shopfronts are largely original with large vertical panes with slim timber mullions and small lights above. Pilasters frame each shop and each door, making six in all, these have paired consoles and elaborate terracotta heads with swags and pedimented caps. Fascia to each shop, the house doors are 6-panel with keyed elliptical heads. The first floor has further pilasters rising to the coved cornice with paired console caps. Seven windows, 2 (No. 23A) + 2 (No. 23) + 1 (above door) + 1 (No. 22) + 1 ( above door). All these are 2 over 2 pane sashes with meeting rails curved on the underside and the tops of the upper sashes divided into small panes except for those of No. 23A which are now plate glass. Canted oriel window above No. 22, coved base and pedimented head, sashes as before. Coved cornice with deeply projecting eaves. Plain roof with four gabled dormers, these have 1 over 2-pane sashes, the upper pane divided into small panes as before, pedimented gables with finial, large stack to either gable.
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