Sir Walter Montague Almshouses, Chepstow, Monmouthshire

Coordinates

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

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History

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.

Exterior

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.

Reasons for Listing

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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Other nearby listed buildings

II Griffin House
Atttached to the Montague Almshouses, opposite the junction with St Mary Street.
II 16, St Mary Street, Chepstow, Chepstow, GWENT
On the lower corner of St Mary Street and Upper Church Street, the main doorway facing number 14 opposite.
II 14, St Mary Street, Chepstow, Chepstow, GWENT
On the lower corner of St Mary Street and Upper Church Street, facing number 16 opposite.
II The First Hurdle
In the centre of this range.
II Nos. 15&16 Upper Church Street, Chepstow, Chepstow
The house between the corner properties of Middle Street and St Mary Street. Set back from the road behind a small walled courtyard and reached by a flight of stone steps.
II 13, St Mary Street, Chepstow, Chepstow
In the lower part of the street.
II 12, St Mary Street, Chepstow, Chepstow
Towards the lower end of the street.
II 8, Middle Street, Chepstow, Chepstow, GWENT
Rounding the corner of Middle Street and Upper Church Street.

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Sir Walter Montague Almshouses

A Grade II Listed Building in Chepstow, Monmouthshire