Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
2572
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/03/1975
Date of Amendment
12/11/2002
Name of Property
Blenheim House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Chepstow
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Chepstow
Easting
353082
Northing
193675
Street Side
S
Location
Set on the steep hillside above the town facing N; this is the lower house of the two.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Birchfield House and Blenheim House were built as one property known as Albion House, probably in late C18 as there is a record of a staymaker as owner in 1790. It was divided into two houses c 1860.
Exterior
One of a pair of later Georgian houses. This house comprises the lower left-hand three bays of the four-bay main road frontage. Walls are roughcasr rendered and painted; machine tile roof. Three storeys. Three-window range, mostly sashes though with top floor casements, small-pane to left. End left bay has a two-storey segmental tri-partite bow window with sashes with fluted architraves, matching that of Birchfield at the upper end; 6-pane sashes to the 2 central lower bays, on the ground floor flanking a C20 door under a shallow bracketed hood with fluted side pilasters. House is above level of road and reached by steps and through a walled courtyard.
Interior
Believed to retain Regency fittings.
Reason for designation
Listed as one of a pair of Georgian houses.
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