The First Hurdle is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 March 1975. Restaurant. 3 related planning applications.
The First Hurdle
- WRENN ID
- shifting-transept-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1975
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- The First Hurdle, 9 Upper Church Street, Chepstow Centre, Chepstow, NP16 5EX
- OS grid reference
- ST 535 939
- Coordinates
- 51.64282, -2.67315
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The First Hurdle is a pair of Georgian houses that have been combined into a single restaurant. The left unit features pebbledash-rendered walls and a machine tile roof with brick end stacks. It is two storeys high and has a three-window arrangement of 12-pane sash windows, with the ground floor windows paired to the right. There is a central doorway that has a 20th-century door. Attached to the right and slightly lower is a similar unit, which has smooth rendered walls on the ground floor. This unit also has a three-window range of sashes, with 4-pane windows on the first floor and multipane paired windows on the ground floor, located on either side of a central doorway.
Local climate
The First Hurdle 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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