12 High Street
About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information
| Address: | 12 High Street |
| Present Occupier: | U-explore |
| Present Owner: | |
| Ground Floor: | Active,outdoor & lifestyle fashion |
| Other Floors: | |
| Date when first used by present occupier: | November 2023 |
About the Building
c.1905 . Brick frontage with terracotta details [Information from Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980]
In 2007 Carphone Warehouse requested retrospective planning permission for their Aluminium shop front [Source: Monmouthshire Planning Application no: DC/2007/00440 New Aluminium Shop Front (Retrospective) Approved]
1997 Thura Bread Ltd Shop Front Alteration and side door repositioned [Source: Monmouthshire Planning Application no: M01591]
1987 K Shoe Shops Ltd applied for planning permission for New Shopfront for Retail Shoe Shop Decision letter conditions state: “The central double doors shall be positioned so as to be in the same place as the new shop windows to create a flat frontage.” [Source: Monmouthshire Planning application no: A28188 3/9/1987 Decision Letter Conditions point 3.]
Recent History
From November 2023: U-xplore. 1st independent store for the Unify Brand Partnership, a UK distributor of active, outdoor & lifestyle fashion brands. HQ in Cwmbran. Founder and MD – Damian Cooper, local.
From Nov 2020 to June 2023: Magic Cottage (“Top Notch”) – a local charity organisation. Closed this site and moved to the ex Richards Department Store in Frogmore Street (which had been empty for ?? decades
From at least 2006 to 2020 April 3rd: Carphone Warehouse – still exists online but closed all its shops [2006 date Source: Monmouthshire Planning Application no: DC/2006/01297 Express consent to display an advert.] [2020 date Source: South Wales Argus online 17 March 2020 “2,900 jobs at risk as Carphone Warehouse closes stores – branches in Gwent affected” https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/18310340.2-900-jobs-risk-carphone-warehouse-closes-stores—branches-gwent-affected/]
1997 Thura Bread Ltd [Source: Monmouthshire Planning Application no: M01591 Shop Front Alteration and side door repositioned]
1989 Forest Bakery Ltd applied for change of use from shoe shop to Bakery shop [Source: Monmouthshire Planning Application No A31846 31/11/1989 Use of former shoe shop for Bakery shop with ancillary shop / café with office use for existing first and second floors]
1987 K Shoe Shop applied for planning permission for New Shopfront [Source: Monmouthshire Planning application no: A28188 3/9/1987]
From?? until ?? : Turner’s Shoe Shop at time of last survey [Information from Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980]
Previous Occupiers
| Year | Name | Detail | Source |
| 1937 | Cash & Co | Boot & shoe makers (also Practical Clothing & Supply Co Ltd and E J Esdaile, Consulting Opticians (Thursdays) | Kelly |
| 1934 | Cash & Co | Boot & shoe makers | Kelly |
| 1930 | Cash & Co | Boot & shoe makers (1929-1931 : also “Elite” ladies hairdressing, Miss R Bowen, prop) | Car/Npt & Dis |
| 1926 | Cash & Co | Boot & shoe makers | Kelly |
| 1923 | Cash & Co | Boot & shoe makers | Kelly |
| 1920 | Cash & Co | Boot & shoe makers | Kelly |
| 1914 | Cash & Co | Boot & shoe makers | Kelly |
| 1910 | Cash & Co | Boot & shoe makers | Kelly |
| 1906 | Cash & Co | Boot & shoe makers | Kelly |
| 1901 | Daniel Ruther (Farmer) | Confectioner | Kelly |
| 1891 |
Jasper Walters |
Greengrocer | Kelly |
| 1884 |
Jasper Walters |
Greengrocer | Kelly |
| 1879 |
Jasper Walters |
Greengrocer | Thacker |
| 1877 | Jasper Walters | Greengrocer | Owen |
| 1875 | Jasper Walters | Greengrocer | Mer & Croc |
| 1871 | Jasper Walters | Greengrocer | Kelly |
| 1865 | Morgan Davies | Fishmonger & Fruiterer (in Nevill Street in 1862) | Webster |
| 1862 | Morgan Davies | Fishmonger & Fruiterer | Morris & Co |
| 1858 | Morgan Davies | Fishmonger & Fruiterer | Slater |
| 1851 | Samuel Trewin | Watchmaker | Census |
Other Information
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