Bowsher House is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 March 1975. Townhouse, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Bowsher House
- WRENN ID
- idle-cobalt-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1975
- Type
- Townhouse, shop
- Address
- Bowsher House, 23 St Mary Street, Chepstow Centre, Chepstow, NP16 5EU
- OS grid reference
- ST 534 939
- Coordinates
- 51.6425, -2.67416
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bowsher House is a large Georgian townhouse and shop, currently functioning as a shop on two storeys with a separate two-storey dwelling above, attached on one side. The walls are scored rendered, and it has a hipped roof made of Welsh slate. The building has four storeys and a cellar. It features a three-window range of horned sashes with cambered heads: 9-pane windows on the top floor, and 12-pane windows on the second and first floors, with platbands separating the floors. There are large 20th-century shop windows with a deep slate fascia.
Local climate
Bowsher House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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