The Old Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 March 2001. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Shop
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 March 2001
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Shop, Skenfrith, Monmouth, NP7 8UH
- OS grid reference
- SO 456 202
- Coordinates
- 51.87858, -2.79118
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is an 18th-century rubble-built house situated at a right angle to the road, with its rear facing the church. The house has a double-depth, two-unit plan aligned on a northeast-southwest axis, facing southeast. A large lean-to extension, with a hipped tiled roof, projects from the southwest gable, facing the road; a smaller lean-to is attached to the opposite gable with a doorway and a 4-panel door. A rear wing extends from the east bay.
The two-storey, two-window front facade is constructed of roughly-coursed small random rubble, with the left gable rendered. The roof is covered in small brown clay tiles. A plain, square-headed doorway, slightly offset to the left of centre, features a 4-panel door. The ground floor has a small, oblong three-light casement window to the right and a small, square two-light casement to the left. Two matching two-light casements are positioned above these at the first floor. All windows have small-paned glazing and appear relatively small and widely spaced in proportion to the facade's width. Gable chimneys are present at each end of the roof.
The lean-to facing the street, formerly a shop, has a doorway flanked by a pair of large fixed windows. The rear of the east bay has a casement window at ground floor, a small fixed window adjacent to the junction with the rear wing, and two casements above. The rear wing has one casement window on each floor and a 20th-century garage doorway to the north. The property was not inspected internally.
Local climate
The Old Shop receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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