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Blenheim House

A Grade II Listed Building in Chepstow, Monmouthshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6399 / 51°38'23"N

Longitude: -2.6794 / 2°40'45"W

OS Eastings: 353082

OS Northings: 193675

OS Grid: ST530936

Mapcode National: GBR JM.7SVH

Mapcode Global: VH87T.H1WN

Plus Code: 9C3VJ8QC+X7

Entry Name: Blenheim House

Listing Date: 24 March 1975

Last Amended: 12 November 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 2572

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300002572

Location: Set on the steep hillside above the town facing N; this is the lower house of the two.

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Chepstow

Community: Chepstow (Cas-gwent)

Community: Chepstow

Built-Up Area: Chepstow

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

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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.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as one of a pair of Georgian houses.

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