1 Nevill Street

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Present Occupier:
Present Owner:
Ground Floor:
Other Floors:
Date when first used by present occupier:

1 Nevill Street
Shackleton’s
Chemist & photography shop

changed to Shackleton’s around 1981

Before and After Images

 

1979/80

 2016


 

About the building

Early 19th century front (Welsh Office)

The rear premises may date back to the 1600s. Georgian coins were in the floor at the back.

Iron grilles to the first floor windows.

The wide overhanging eaves and string course with the shallower Italianate roof pitch look as if the frontage was built around 1800. The fine ash bars in the windows are probably original, possibly machine made.

The rear of the building is considerably older than the front and was possibly a small cottage. Later the front was added and, together with the adjacent building in Nevill Street, formed the Raven Hotel.The deeds to no 5 refer to the Raven Hotel in 1810.

The two passages between 1 and 3 were the entrance to the courtyard and stables at the rear of the buildings. The cellars of the original buildings were still in use in 1980, those of no 1 having intact wine racks.

 

Recent history

1980: H Shackleton & Co, chemists/photography.

1974 -78 : S V Kent and son, photography and equipment.

1961 to 1973: S V Kent, photographic specialist.

1960: S V Kent, dispensing chemist, full page advertisement “local chemist introduces new ways to improve hearing”.

1956 to 1959:S V Kent’s cameras.

 


 

Previous occupiers

Year

Name

Detail

Source

1970

Stanley Victor Kent

Pharmacy

Kelly

1937

”        ”         ”

Kelly

1934

”        ”         ”

Kelly

1930

”        ”         ”

Car/Npt & Dis

1926

”        ”         ”

Kelly

1924

”        ”         ”

Kelly

1923

Albert Joseph Slater

Kelly

1914

”        ”         ”

Kelly

1910

”        ”         ”

Kelly

1909

Kelly

1906

”        ”         ”

Kelly

1901

Henry Pryer

Kelly

1895

”         ”

Kelly

1891

”         ”

Kelly

1884

”         ”

Kelly

1879

”         ”

Thacker

1877

James Gosden

Owen

1875

”         ”

Mer & Croc

1871

”         ”

Kelly

> 1868

”         ”

1865

”         ”

1862

”         “/Henry Thompson publican

pharmacist/public house

Morris & Co

1858

James Gosden

Henry Thompson

Pharmacist

Hat Maker

Slater

1851

Henry Thompson

also William Thomas Hurst

Hat Maker

Chemist & druggist resident

1851 census

1845

”         ”

”     ”

Pigot

1844

”         ”

”       ”

Slater

1841

Slater

1838

 

 

Pigot

1834-45

Pigot

1835

James Gosden

Henry Thompson

Pharmacist

Hat Maker/Publican

Pigot

1826

1822

W Jennings

James Price

Draper’s shop

Druggist & China & Glass

Deeds

Pigot

1810

William Griffiths

John Valentine

Tailor

Shoemaker

Deeds



 


 

Other information

The Raven is not a common pub name and is thought to be a reference to loyalty to the Jacobite cause. Abergavenny lost its royal charter because the town bailiff would not swear allegiance to the protestant William & Mary who replaced the Stuart King James ll.  (Frank Olding)

There is an article in the Abergavenny Chronicle regarding the property on its centenary as a chemist in 1935.

If you have any further information about this property please email alhs@live.co.uk