25 Frogmore Street

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25 Frogmore Street
Auberge Wine Bar 

Before and After Images

 

1979/80

2016


 

About the building

The original building had a thatched roof but was rebuilt in the 1960s.

You could walk down the lane under the arch to the right. This was also the entrance to the stables, to the Cibi Brook, and along the brook to the back of the White Horse. There was a court to the rear containing cottages which have all been demolished.

In 1976, there was a shop under the arch (the Card & Gift Cavern, previously a cut-price shop).

A/144 1985 Abergavenny Chronicle Oct 7th 1949. This shows a drawing of Frogmore Street with a small house, prior to the building of the archway on the left of the present building.

 

Recent history

alongside Auberge (which is no.25) is a very small property, with various uses over many years, latterly a ladies clothes shop

In October 2021, it opened as V24 cocktail bar.   Apparently owned by “Casa Bianca” Italian Restaurant (no 51Frogmore Street).   V24 property is not really no. 24 (which is currently “ZaZa Barber”);  could be called “24A”;  has never had a separate entry on the street survey

2006: Auberge bar

1989: 25A The card & Gift Cavern

was the ‘Old Herefordshire House’

 


 

Previous occupiers

Year

Name

Detail

Source

1947

from 1973: Prop Mr & Mrs Harding

The Old Herefordshire House

Rate book

1937

Prop: Bernard Hall & Llew Ashcroft

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1934

Kelly

1930

”     ”       ”

”     ”       ”

Car/Npt & Dis

1926

Prop: Llew Ashcroft

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1923

Prop: C Jones

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1920

Prop: George Evans

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1914

”     ”       ”

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1910

”     ”       ”

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1909

Kelly

1906

”     ”       ”

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1901

Prop: Elizabeth Maddocks

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1895

Kelly

1891

Prop: William Day Jnr.

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1884

Kelly

1879

D R Jones

Brewer

Thacker

1877

W Williams

Tailor & Woollen draper

Owen

1875

Mer & Croc

1871

Kelly

> 1868

1865

1862

Morris & Co

1852

John Jenkins (Victualler)

The Old Herefordshire House

Lascelles

1851

1850

David Harris

Prop: David Roger Jones

Tailor

Crown & Sceptre

Census

1845

Pigot

1844

Slater

1841

Slater

1835

Pigot

1834-45

Pigot

1834

Car/Npt & Dis

1822

Prop: David Roger Jones

Herefordshire House

Pigot

1769

1741

 

Prop: Peter Powell

Crown & Sceptre

Rose & Crown

Pigot



 


 

Other information

1741 is the earliest mention of the Rose & Crown Prop: Peter Powell. He is described as the ‘late Peter Powell’ in a mortgage dated 23 May 1769. The pub was then known as the Crown & Sceptre. It is first referred to as Herefordshire House in 1822, although it reverted back to the crown & Sceptre between 1834 & 1839. It is first called the Old Herefordshire House in 1842, but as the Crown & Sceptre in 1850. It became the Colonial Inn in 1997, and is currently known as the Auberge.

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