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Latitude: 51.6422 / 51°38'31"N
Longitude: -2.6794 / 2°40'45"W
OS Eastings: 353081
OS Northings: 193929
OS Grid: ST530939
Mapcode National: GBR JM.7LQX
Mapcode Global: VH87M.HZVG
Plus Code: 9C3VJ8RC+V6
Entry Name: Castledale and York House including forecourt railings and gates
Listing Date: 24 March 1975
Last Amended: 12 November 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 2601
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300002601
Location: In the centre of the range of 5 listed buildings, stepped back from Fairlight.
County: Monmouthshire
Town: chepstow
Community: Chepstow (Cas-gwent)
Community: Chepstow
Built-Up Area: Chepstow
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Tagged with: House
Early Victorian. York House was originally Wyecliffe but was re-named following a visit to the Castle and Wyndcliff by the Duchess of York during a Royal visit in 1900 when she took shelter here from enthusiastic crowds
Pair of townhouses in heavy classicising style, now offices, attached at one side. Walls rendered with stucco; slate roof incorporating 4 cambered-headed dormers with casement windows; tall narrow chimney stack straddles roof at division of houses. Three storeys and basement. Six-window range (three per house), all with bracketed sills. Second floor windows are 4-pane sashes in reveals. First floor has tall French windows, the inner ones (two on each house) opening onto balconies with ornamental cast-iron hand rails and supported by brackets. Ground floor windows and doors have semi-circular heads and moulded string carried over window and door heads and between windows bracketed at impost level. Moulded string cornice at first floor level on enriched console brackets and similar eaves cornice, the brackets spaced in pairs. Forecourt railings have spear finials, gates to each side, gate-piers with pyramidal caps and nosed stone steps up to each door and down to basement. To rear, only York House retains its sash windows with glazing bars.
Staircases rise parallel to frontage behind the front ground floor room; stick balusters but with a turned newel? post. Some panelled shutters and reveals retained. 4-panelled doors.
Listed as a pair of C19 townhouses of unusual design. Group value with other listed buildings in this range.
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