8 Cross Street
About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information
| Address: | 8 Cross Street |
| Present Occupier: | The Art Shop |
| Present Owner: | Mrs Pauline Griffiths |
| Ground Floor: | Shop |
| Other Floors: | Gallery |
| Date when first used by present occupier: | 2002 |
About the Building
The approximate date of the original building ?1600. There are 12th century beams in the shop ceiling, possibly originally ships’ beams (source Mr Barnfield, Local History Survey 1980). Further comments from this original survey include the statement that the beams are certainly very old but the building has been extensively altered and added to. The ceilings are too high to be 16th century. There is some finger-moulded plasterwork upstairs, which may be early 19th century. The floors interlace with those of No. 9 Cross Street.
Note the iron railings with pedimented panel on the front and hood moulding over the window.
Recent History
Owner/occupier from 1908 to ?? late 1990s/early 2000s?? Fred Sadler & Son, Newsagent and Haberdasher (with accommodation and stores over).
Previous Occupiers
| Year | Name | Detail | Source |
| 1970 | F Sadler & Son | Newsagent | Kelly |
| 1937 | Fred Sadler & Son | Newsagent. parcels office for GWR Co | Kelly |
| 1934 | Fred Sadler & Son | Newsagent. parcels office for GWR Co | Kelly |
| 1930 | Fred Sadler & Son | Newsagent. parcels office for GWR Co | Car/Npt & Dis |
| 1926 | Fred Sadler & Son | Newsagent. parcels office for GWR Co | Kelly |
| 1923 | Fred Sadler & Son | Newsagent. parcels office for GWR Co | Kelly |
| 1920 | Fred Sadler & Son | Newsagent. parcels office for GWR Co | Kelly |
| 1914 | Fred Sadler & Son | Newsagent. parcels office for GWR Co | Kelly |
| 1908 | Purchased by Fred Sadler & Son | Newsagent. parcels office for GWR Co | Kelly |
| 1906 | Arthur Thomas Davies | Stationer & Newsagent | Kelly |
| 1901 | Arthur Thomas Davies | Stationer & Newsagent | Kelly |
| 1895 | Arthur Thomas Davies | Stationer & Newsagent | Kelly |
| 1891 | Arthur Thomas Davies | Stationer & Newsagent | Kelly |
| 1879 | R S Davies | Bookseller, Stationer & Newsagent | Thacker |
| 1877 | R S Davies | Bookseller, Stationer & Newsagent | Owen |
| 1875 | R S Davies | Bookseller, Stationer & Newsagent | Mer & Croc |
| 1871 | R S Davies | Bookseller & Carting agent for R T Smith & Co | Kelly |
| 1865 | R S Davies | Bookseller | Webster |
| 1862 | Edward Lane Davies | Basket Maker | Morris & Co |
| 1858 | Edward Samuel Davies | Bookseller, stationer, circulating library. Agent for Hereford Times | Slater |
| 1850 | Benjamin Thomas Davies & William Watkins, mercer | Stationer & Basket maker | Pigot |
| 1844 | Benjamin Thomas Davies & William Watkins, mercer | Stationer & Basket maker | Slater |
| 1835 | Davies (Grandpere) and James Saunders (seedsman) (from Deeds) | Newsagent, basket maker, parcel receiving office for Royal Mail (source : T Sadler) | Pigot |
Other Information
From the deeds:
1842 : owned by John Jones of Blakeney, Gloucestershire.
1848 : owned by John Trotter (who married Anne, niece of John Jones above (see no.52 Cross Street). Described then as “dwelling house, premises and workshops for some years past, occupied by James Saunders, seedsman and now in occupation of William Watkins, mercer and draper, who is also in occupation of the house called the “Golden Fleece” opposite”.
1875 : Sold by Thomas Seasby Jones & others to Mr Samuel Eames, Tailor of Mardy (occupying no.9 next door from 1862-1891 and which now in occupation of Edward Samuel Davies, Stationer). It then passed to Samuel Eames’ son, Richard.
1908 : Purchased by Frederick Sadler from Richard Eames.
From statement by Mr Ernest Jackson (brother of Alfred Jackson) (source : Local History Survey 1980) : The Post Office business was carried on here.
Also from original survey, statement that R T Smith & Co were parcel carriers for the Great Western Railway, for a few years prior to World War 1. GWR later absorbed this carrier service into the main Company, and took over many of their employees
Advert in Abergavenny Chronicle in 1984 for “Sadler & Son, Newsagent, haberdasher and art supplies” and similar in 1991.
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