Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
2529
Building Number
8
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
07/04/1966
Date of Amendment
12/11/2002
Name of Property
,8,High Street,Chepstow,Chepstow,GWENT,
Address
8 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Chepstow
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Chepstow
Easting
353328
Northing
193818
Street Side
S
Location
High Street has ascending numbers downhill on E side to Beaufort Square, then uphill from number 24 on N side
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Probably C18 remodelled in C19. Shopfront reported as dated 1871. Formerly a tobacconist whose products were listed on the side panels of the shopfront.
Exterior
Georgian/Victorian frontage, shop on two storeys, attached at each side. Walls of scored render with pantile roof well set back behind eaves cornice. First floor has two canted bay windows with plate glass sashes and pitched slate roofs. Panelled shop front has slender mullions and dentilled cornice, bracketed over side door to right which is recessed with panelled part-glazed door. Shopfront door at centre with overlight.
Interior
At first floor one large chamfered and stopped beam parallel with frontage. Boxed in staircase.
Reason for designation
Listed as a building within the historic centre retaining its character. Group value especially with number 7, and other listed buildings in High Street
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