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Latitude: 51.6441 / 51°38'38"N
Longitude: -2.6729 / 2°40'22"W
OS Eastings: 353532
OS Northings: 194133
OS Grid: ST535941
Mapcode National: GBR JM.7NC8
Mapcode Global: VH87M.MY91
Plus Code: 9C3VJ8VG+JR
Entry Name: Cromwell House
Listing Date: 14 March 1955
Last Amended: 12 November 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 2505
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300002505
Location: Opposite the Three Tuns Inn, adjacent to former school.
County: Monmouthshire
Town: Chepstow
Community: Chepstow (Cas-gwent)
Community: Chepstow
Built-Up Area: Chepstow
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Tagged with: House
Probably C16 origin with later remodelling. Name reflects claim that Oliver Cromwell slept in the house after taking Chepstow in 1648.
Detached house, shop on ground floor. Pebbledashed and painted with pantiled roof. 3 storeys, end gable fronting road with bargeboards and applied timber-framing in gable; battered. 2-window range of cambered headed 9/6 pane sashes with thick glazing bars and exposed frames to first and ground floor; casement window to gable. Doorway at end left is square-headed with plain oak door, iron hinges and hood. Plinth, chamfered right corner. Stepped down in 2 wings to rear.
Interior retains ground floor stone Tudor fireplace with flat arch and spandrels; 2 chamfered beams parallel with frontage, flag floor. Roof with wind-braces believed to be retained.
Listed as a rare early surviving house with interesting historical associations. Group value with other listed buildings in the upper part of Bridge Street.
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