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High Street, ABERGAVENNY, NP7 5RY

where it joins High Street

Distinctive branch [19th century building] of NatWest Cymru in the town centre. www.abergavenny.org.uk

Grade II Listed bank with some possibly 17th century remains, it is made up of numerous stages of building and redevelopment. The house that was 10 High Street and was incorporated into no.9 as the bank, remained a residence (later the managers) until after 1937. Its current façade is probably as a result of an 1837 refurbishment. It is said to have been Hill, Hill, Osborne and Co. bank from 1822 when Abergavenny Bank moved to no.10 from 5 Nevill Street. (Known as Abergavenny Bank by 1810, it was the first bank in the town and started as a partnership of Thomas Hill, Samuel Hopkins & Lewis Osborne in 1792). It is unclear when 9 and 10 were amalgamated, map evidence is conflicting, but potentially it could be from at least 1800. This would fit with evidence that no.10 remained a private residence until c.1839 when Mr John Walter Roberts leased it to William Morgan for 99 years at £150pa. and Morgan leased the property to the bank. Bailey, Morgan, Greatrex and Williams opened the Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank here in 1837 and are probably responsible for most of what you see from the street today. It became a part of the National Provincial Bank in 1868 and then in 1968 the bank announced its merger with Westminster Bank, but it continued to trade under its own name until vesting day of National Westminster Bank in 1970. Alex Robertson, Peter Francis and Partners were responsible for a major reconstruction in 1977-8 when stuccoed cornices, balustraded parapet, and other Victorian embellishments were removed.

Now premises of the Natwest, Abergavenny.

Now Nat West. On High Street in Abergavenny. Probably dates from 1837. Grade II listed.

Grade II* Listed classic Burton tailors shop almost unaltered from the original design. The foundation stone was laid by Raymond Montague Burton in 1937. Probably designed by Burton's chief architect N Martin. The chain had been founded in Chesterfield in 1903 by Montague Morris Burton and became the largest men's clothes company in the world. The building replaced three shops that had mostly been drapers and footwear makers and retailers. At least two of the properties had been empty for a number of years before Burton's purchased the site around 1935. The first floor was a billiard room until 1975 when it was converted to Chevron Nigh Club. In 2018 the first floor was described as having been used for storage 'for many years'. Burton's closed the shop around October 2017 and subsequently sold the building to a developer. After an extensive refit Mountain Warehouse moved in August 2019 with the current lease expiring July 2029. The freehold was apparently sold again in late 2020.

Menswear shop at 16-17 High Street, on the corner of Nevill Street. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2282837 to a closer view of the old-style Montague Burton name on the right.

Lots of fine old buildings along this street. In the distance is a glimpse of The Blorenge (480m).