Chepstow buildings [53]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 3 Sep 2022

Number 13 Bank Street has an early 19th century frontage to, or adjoining, an earlier building, shown by the corbelled corner, with a 19th century shopfront. Formerly an inn, the Lamb and Flag from 1766 to 1817, later The Wheatsheaf Inn. Constructed of stuccoed rubble stone under a slate roof. The side downhill has an elevation of rubble stone corbelled out at first floor level. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=&id=2493 Chepstow, the most easterly town in Wales, is located on the tidal River Wye, some 3 miles above its confluence with the River Severn. There is evidence of continuous human occupation from the Mesolithic period. The town grew in importance when the Normans erected a castle at what was the lowest bridging point of the River Wye. The town flourished as a port, being exempt from English taxation, and it mainly traded in timber and bark from the Wye Valley. The town became an important centre for tourism from the late eighteenth century.

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