National Westminster Bank incorporating former nos. 1&2 Hocker Hill Street, inc. forecourt railings, Chepstow, Monmouthshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6425 / 51°38'32"N

Longitude: -2.6746 / 2°40'28"W

OS Eastings: 353413

OS Northings: 193958

OS Grid: ST534939

Mapcode National: GBR JM.7MYD

Mapcode Global: VH87M.LZD7

Plus Code: 9C3VJ8RG+X4

Entry Name: National Westminster Bank incorporating former nos. 1&2 Hocker Hill Street, inc. forecourt railings

Listing Date: 24 March 1975

Last Amended: 12 November 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 2497

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300002497

Location: At the NE corner of Beaufort Square between the top of Middle Street and Hocker Hill Street

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Chepstow

Community: Chepstow (Cas-gwent)

Community: Chepstow

Built-Up Area: Chepstow

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

Tagged with: Bank Business

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History

Early C19. Built on the site of the Three Cranes Inn stables, demolished and replaced by two houses c 1809, when part of the premises was used by the Chepstow Bank, and subsequent banks, with an intervening period as a private house c 1849-1923.

Exterior

Former Georgian house converted to bank. Walls rendered with scored stucco; hipped slate roof behind parapet. Four storeys. Beaufort Square frontage has a two-window range of sashes without glazing bars to top two storeys; front entrance off square at first floor level has tripartite multipane window to right and wide doorway to left with paired pilasters and shallow enriched etablature hood and Adam-style blind overlight, double doors. Teraced forecourt extends to front over basement with railings with urn finials on stone coping. Middle Street elevation has a 4-window range of 12-pane sashes over 4 storeys. Hocker Hill Street elevation incorporates a former pair of houses with a 4-window range of sashes: 9-pane to second floor, 12-pane to first floor. Paired entrance doorways in round-arched recesses up 6 steps with 6-panelled doors and fanlights with radial glazing flanked by 12-pane sash to right, tripartite sash to left.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a fine Georgian building in prominent position. Group value with other listed buildings in Beaufort Square, the upper parts of Middle Street and Hocker Hill Street.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II 10, Hocker Hill Street, Chepstow, Chepstow, GWENT
The narrow cobbled street runs downhill from the rear corner of Beaufort Square with descending numbering.
II 12, Middle Street, Chepstow, Chepstow, GWENT
The major house in Middle Street, in the middle of the range.
II St Maur including iron forecourt railings
The narrow cobbled street runs downhill from the rear corner of Beaufort Square with descending numbering; this is the first house in the street.
II 9, Hocker Hill Street, Chepstow, Chepstow, GWENT
The narrow cobbled street runs downhill from the rear corner of Beaufort Square with descending numbering.
II 6&7 Beaufort Square
The main range on the E side of the square between St Mary Street and Middle Street
II 8, Hocker Hill Street, Chepstow, Chepstow, GWENT
The narrow cobbled street runs downhill from the rear corner of Beaufort Square with descending numbering..
II 9, Beaufort Square, Chepstow, Chepstow, GWENT
On the NE corner of Beaufort Square at the top of Hocker Hill Street
II 11, Middle Street, Chepstow, Chepstow, GWENT
The narrow end unit of a large block which includes a double-fronted house (number 12).

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National Westminster Bank incorporating former nos. 1&2 Hocker Hill Street, inc. forecourt railings

A Grade II Listed Building in Chepstow, Monmouthshire