15 High Street
About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information
| Address: | 15 High Street |
| Present Occupier: | Squeezing |
| Present Owner: | |
| Ground Floor: | Squeezing |
| Other Floors: | |
| Date when first used by present occupier: | 2024 July |
About the Building
“A prickly Edwardian insertion in to a dignified Georgian Street” [Source:L Hurley].
There used to be an alley way running behind the property. It had a seed shop in it, run by a blind man, up until 1960.
Note the terracotta roundels.
The change of street name occurs between this and the adjacent shop, even though they are the same building, because High Street was inside the medieval town wall and Frogmore outside.
Above information from ALHS Survey 1980
Between 1980 and 2016 the shop front was remodelled. The 1979/80 photo shows a recessed doorway on the left, a bevelled window to the right and a large window fronting the pavement. The 2016 photo shows the shop frontage parallel to the pavement with the door moved to the right hand side with a large single pane of glass to the left. Possible planning application 2002 [Source: Monmouthshire planning application M6706 New Shop Front Digby Turner & Co 25/6/2002]
Recent History
2024 July – : Squeezing, A Juice bar selling fresh juices, smoothies, also ice cream.
c 2013 to 2023 July : Bidmead Cook Estate Agents. Closed all branches. The Monmouthshire Building Society had an agency within the Abergavenny branch, this had to close at the same time.
Previous Occupiers
| Year | Name | Detail | Source |
| c 2013 | Bidmead Cook | Estate Agents | ALHS Survey |
| 2006 Feb – c 2013 | Bairstow Eves | Estate Agents | ALHS Survey |
| 1979 – 2006 | Digby Turner & Co | Estate Agents | ALHS Survey 1980+ |
| 1958 – 1979 | W Philips | Shoe Shop | ALHS Survey 1980 |
| to 1958 | Home & Colonial Food Stores | Grocers | ALHS survey 1980 |
| 1937 | Home & Colonial Food Stores | Grocers | Kelly |
| 1934 | Home & Colonial Food Stores | Grocers | Kelly |
| 1930 | Home & Colonial Food Stores | Grocers | Car/Npt & Dis |
| 1926 | Home & Colonial Food Stores | Grocers | Kelly |
| 1923 | Home & Colonial Food Stores | Grocers | Kelly |
| 1920 | Home & Colonial Food Stores | Grocers | Kelly |
| 1914 | Home & Colonial Food Stores | Grocers | Kelly |
| 1910 | Home & Colonial Food Stores | Grocers | Kelly |
| 1906 | Home & Colonial Food Stores | Grocers | Kelly |
| 1901 | Zachariah Wheatley | Jeweller | Kelly |
| 1895 | Zachariah Wheatley | Jeweller | Kelly |
| 1891 | Zachariah Wheatley | Jeweller | Kelly |
| 1884 | Mrs Ann Davies | Butcher (moved to 4 Frogmore Street in 1884) | Kelly |
| 1879 | Mrs Ann Davies | Butcher (business founded in 1823 – source 1879 Thacker) | Thacker |
| 1877 | Mrs Ann Davies | Butcher | Owen |
| 1875 | Mrs Ann Davies | Butcher | Mer & Croc |
| 1871 | Mrs Ann Davies | Butcher | Kelly |
| 1865 | Mrs Ann Davies | Butcher | Webster |
| 1862 | Mrs Ann Davies | Butcher | Morris & Co |
| 1858 | Mrs Ann Davies | Butcher | Slater |
| 1850 | Mrs Ann Davies (?also Abraham Edwards, Grocer) | Butcher | Pigot |
| 1844 | Mrs Ann Davies | Butcher | Slater |
| 1835 | Mrs Ann Davies | Butcher | Pigot |
| 1822 | Mrs Ann Davies | Butcher | Pigot |
Other Information
There is a quote on the pages of the original survey that “the deeds (of this property) are with the Stamp Office, as some of the land is registered. It is known that, prior to the Home & Colonial, the property belonged to a doctor in Bristol”
Adverts in Abergavenny Chronicle :
1956 : ad for Home & Colonial Stores, Grocer
1962 : ad for W R Phillips, Shoe Retailer requiring “Lady Assistant” (December 1962); ads also in 1967, 1968 (“fitter of quality footwear”); 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972
1978 : ad for Digby Turner & Co, Estate Agents; ads also in 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2005
2006 : ad for Bairstow Eves (Estate Agents) new offices February 2006
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