30, High Street, Chepstow, Chepstow, GWENT, Chepstow, Monmouthshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6411 / 51°38'27"N

Longitude: -2.6765 / 2°40'35"W

OS Eastings: 353282

OS Northings: 193803

OS Grid: ST532938

Mapcode National: GBR JM.7TQ6

Mapcode Global: VH87T.K0DS

Plus Code: 9C3VJ8RF+C9

Entry Name: 30, High Street, Chepstow, Chepstow, GWENT

Listing Date: 24 March 1975

Last Amended: 12 November 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 2538

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300002538

Location: On a corner site facing into Bank Street with side elevation fronting High Street and adjoining the Town Gate.

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Chepstow

Community: Chepstow (Cas-gwent)

Community: Chepstow

Built-Up Area: Chepstow

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

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History

Early C19 in its present form but on an early site as it adjoins medieval town gate. Shown in a photograph of early 1900s with a railed balcony outside the first floor windows facing downhill and a wide shopfront across both frontages. For nearly a century it was a boot and shoe shop.

Exterior

Shop and offices with living accommodation above, in Regency style. Scored render; moulded cornice to parapet in front of hipped slate roof with tall rendered stack with slate pot. Three storeys and cellar. Bank Street elevation has 2-window range of 6-pane sashes with narrow glazing bars in reveals, larger to first floor. Elegant C19 shopfront with slender mullions, angled cornice entablature supported by cast-iron pier; recessed doorway in angle with boarded soffit and further piers inside. High Street frontage has a single window range blocked at second floor and ground floor end left doorway with 4-panelled door and 3- pane overlight. Plinth of painted Bathstone.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a Regency shop building with good later C19 shopfront in a prominent and historic position.

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II 1, Bank Street, Chepstow, Chepstow
Part of the Towngate range and attached to number 30 High Street, overlooking the square at the top of Bank Street
II Town Gate House
Attached and at right angles to the Town Gate in the town centre and facing The George .
I Town Gate
Standing at the main entrance to the fortified town between Moor Street outside the gate to W and High Street within walls to E.
II Gate House
Adjoins S side of Town Gate, facing E down High Street.
II White Lion Inn
Main range fronts N side of square at top of High Street and near the town gate, return range fronts W side of square.
II 21, Welsh Street, Chepstow, Chepstow, GWENT
Corner site with Town Gate/Moor Street and opposite The George.
II 3, Bank Street, Chepstow, Chepstow, GWENT
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II 4, Bank Street, Chepstow, Chepstow, GWENT
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30, High Street, Chepstow, Chepstow, GWENT

A Grade II Listed Building in Chepstow, Monmouthshire