Gate House is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 June 1950. House. 2 related planning applications.
Gate House
- WRENN ID
- burning-basalt-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 June 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gate House, 1 High Street, Chepstow
- OS grid reference
- ST 532 937
- Coordinates
- 51.64093, -2.67645
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Gate House features an 18th-century frontage and window design, incorporating some earlier elements. The walls are partly scored roughcast, topped with a double pile hipped slate roof that is set back behind a parapet with moulded coping. The building stands three storeys tall with a cellar. It has a four-window range of 12-pane sashes set in moulded stone architraves.
The wide central doorway, dating from the 17th century, is framed by a heavy wooden doorcase with ovolo and wave mouldings, flanked by carved strapwork ornamentation on the jambs. Above the architrave, which is stopped at the base, are rose medallions in the angles, along with carved raised lettering that reads "AND 1609 MC." The door itself is a panelled part-glazed design with a heavy iron and brass knocker, and it is topped by a flat moulded wooden hood with a plastered soffit.
On the side elevation, twin hipped gables feature a two-window range on the top floor and four windows on the first floor. The ground floor includes a canted bay window with sashes on the right, a 12-pane sash on the left, and a blocked 4-centred chamfered arched opening between them.
Inside, the building has been converted into offices and a Council chamber, featuring early 20th-century fittings throughout the entire front of the first floor. The top floor meeting room may have boxed-in cross beams. The rear staircase is a replacement, while remnants of earlier panelling and a metal door, likely for an 18th-century safe, can still be found. Additionally, there is a 19th-century safe located in the cellar, which includes a gas bracket.
Local climate
Gate 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
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