Latitude: 51.6429 / 51°38'34"N
Longitude: -2.6734 / 2°40'24"W
OS Eastings: 353495
OS Northings: 194007
OS Grid: ST534940
Mapcode National: GBR JM.7N79
Mapcode Global: VH87M.MY0X
Plus Code: 9C3VJ8VG+5J
Entry Name: Sir Walter Montague Almshouses
Listing Date: 6 December 1950
Last Amended: 12 November 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 2590
Building Class: Health and Welfare
ID on this website: 300002590
Location: Long range at the W end and downhill side of the street, opposite juction with St Mary Street
County: Monmouthshire
Town: Chepstow
Community: Chepstow (Cas-gwent)
Community: Chepstow
Built-Up Area: Chepstow
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Tagged with: Almshouse
1699 with C19 and later remodelling. Virtually rebuilt retaining facade in 1955. List description of 1975 refers to 3 doorways to street frontage. Named after Sir William Montague whose will of 1614 provided for almshouses for five men and five women.
C17 Almshouse range. Walls roughcast rendered and painted; slate roof with tall rendered square stacks with tall clustered pots. Consists of three 2-storey houses; five gables with short finials and eaves projecting between gables, decorative bargeboards. One window in each gable and 7 windows on ground floor, 3-light or 2-light leaded diamond-pane casements: wood frames with metal casements with moulded wooden mullions under hoodmoulds . Square-headed doorway with heavy moulded door frame and vertically panelled door with ornamental iron hinges. Painted plinth.
Listed as an historic almshouse range of C17 origin. Group value with other listed buildings in Upper Church Street and St Mary Street.
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