55 Cross Street
About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information
| Address: | 55 Cross Street (Bank House) |
| Present Occupier: | Lloyds Bank |
| Present Owner: | |
| Ground Floor: | Banking |
| Other Floors: | |
| Date when first used by present occupier: | 1901 |
About the Building
Source : Abergavenny Pubs, Frank Olding “The Porter Stores, also known as the Vaults, the Ale and Porter Stores or the Spirit Vaults”
Front built in 1897
Source : Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980:
Nos. 55 and 54 were one house until they were divided in 1811 by William Williams. In 1816, this part is described as “a dwelling house with bedroom over the kitchen, table, hayloft and garden, now walled off from the premises lately occupied by William Williams
In 1860, having become a Public House, it is described as “… dwelling house with a malt room, formerly a bedroom over the smoking room, formerly the kitchen; a brewery formerly the stable and hayloft; a kitchen, formerly a workshop; a yard, formerly the garden and a pigsty, formerly an alcove.
The present building, of one gable only was built in 1897 and can be seen in its original state, without the 1933 extension, on page 117 of the 1906 Guide to Abergavenny. It is constructed of new red sandstone.
Recent History
Previous Occupiers
| Year | Name | Detail | Source |
| 1970 | Lloyds Bank | ||
| 1937 | Lloyds Bank | Manager : Charles Guy Algernon Brooks | Kelly |
| 1934 | Lloyds Bank | Manager : Charles Guy Algernon Brooks (residence upstairs) | Kelly |
| 1930 | Lloyds Bank | Manager : Charles Guy Algernon Brooks | Car/Npt & Dis |
| 1926 | Lloyds Bank | Manager : Charles Guy Algernon Brooks | Kelly |
| 1923 | Lloyds Bank | Manager : Francis Reginald Hobbes | Kelly |
| 1920 | Lloyds Bank | Manager : Francis Reginald Hobbes | Kelly |
| 1910 | Lloyds Bank | Manager : James Aitchison Houston | Kelly |
| 1906 | Lloyds Bank | Manager : Robert C Cullum | Kelly |
| 1901 | Lloyds Bank | Manager : Arthur Davenport | Kelly |
| 1894 | William Phillips to 1897 | Porter Stores Public House | Kelly |
| 1891 | Publican William Phillips (from 1891-1897) | Porter Stores Public House | Kelly |
| 1887 | Publican : Elizabeth Peers | Porter Stores Public House | Kelly |
| 1879 | John Poole | Porter Stores | Thacker |
| 1877 | John Poole | Porter Stores | Owen |
| 1875 | John Poole (Owner : Mrs Window 1873) |
Spirit Vaults |
Mer & Croc Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding |
| 1871 | John Poole | Porter Stores | Kelly |
| 1865 | Publican : John Poole from 1865-1884; Owner George Window (1868) | Porter Stores | Webster Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding |
| 1860 | Publican & Owner: John Warwick from 1860-1862 | Morris & Co Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding |
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| 1858 | Ebenezer Michael | Painter, plumber & decorator, also Vaults Public House | Slater |
| 1850 | Publican : Ebenezer Michael (owner 1853) | Painter, plumber & decorator, also Vaults Public House | Deeds |
| 1846 | William & Elizabeth Lewis | Hatters | Deeds |
| 1835 | William & Elizabeth Lewis | Hatters | Deeds |
| 1822 | William & Elizabeth Lewis | Hatters | Deeds |
| 1816 | William & Elizabeth Lewis | Hatters | Deeds |
| 1811 | John Jones | Shoemaker | Deeds |
Other Information
Source : Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980:
Nos 54 and 55 were one house and the first recorded resident is the surgeon, William Baghott, who leased it from John Hanbury Williams, certainly from 1776, possibly from 1771.
William Williams, saddler, and his son of the same name, a miller, lived here between 1809 and 1811 when William split the house into two separate premises, letting this part to John Jones, the shoemaker from no.52. William and Elizabeth Lewis, hatters, bought this property in 1816 and worked here.
In 1851, as well as Ebenezer Michael (painter, plumber & decorator), property was also occupied by Hannah Williams, staymaker, and her sister Ann Williams, straw-bonnet maker
Elizabeth Lewis (Hatter, along with William Lewis) in her will of 1846 , left her “furnaces” (this word is queried), leaden kettle, stove and all implements of her trade to her workman, Isaac Restall (see no.57 Cross Street)
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