13 Nevill Street, Tindall House (previously Nidra House)
About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information
| Address: | 13 Nevill Street, Tindall House (previously Nidra House) |
| Present Occupier: | Abergavenny Chronicle |
| Present Owner: | |
| Ground Floor: | Newspaper offices all floors |
| Other Floors: | |
| Date when first used by present occupier: |
About the Building
Listed Building Grade II No: 2452
Grade II listed on 7 May 1952 see https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300002452-no13-nevill-street-gwent-abergavenny
Built around 1730-1750. Double hung sash windows with segmented heads. Glazing bars intact on first & second floor windows only. The mouldings around the windows have been removed. Slate roof.
The imitation joints in the stucco are original and correct. There may have been a projecting string course between the first and second floor windows. The front door is good, originally having moulded architraves which have been replaced. A long extension goes down the garden, the windows overlooking the garden of no 15. This was used as a boys’ school around 1877-1901. (source L Hurley)
Recent History
2025 September – Chronicle moved back after extensive internal work
2024 : update : In 2020 the offices closed during the Covid pandemic. Due to severe structural problems, the building has not yet returned to use
Previous Occupiers
| Year | Name | Detail | Source |
| 2000 | Abergavenny Chronicle Newspapers | moved from Frogmore Street | ALHS |
| 1982 | Mrs Marina Berry | ground floor : a Montefiore nursery school, other floors flats until 1982 | ALHS & local knowledge |
| 1947-1982 | private house/British Legion Art Classes & Luncheon club, Mr Wagstaffe Rigby of Gardner Heywood & Gardner & R Townsend Solicitors | ALHS | |
| 1947 | Dr William Thomas Emlyn Blackmore | Hon Medical Officer to Victoria Cottage Hospital & dispensary & public Vaccinator to Llanarth District | |
| 1937 | W T Blackmore | Surgeon & Physician | Kelly |
| 1934 | W T Blackmore | Surgeon & Physician | Kelly |
| 1930 | Madame Ardin (not as previously recorded a refugee from WW1 as she was present in the census of 1901. Natalie Courvoiser, her maid, kept shop in 52 Frogmore Street | Dressmaker | Car/Npt & Dis |
| 1926 | Lewis Morgan | Residential | Kelly |
| 1923 | Lewis Morgan | Residential | Kelly |
| 1906 | Samuel Ruther | Residential | Kelly |
| 1901 | Thomas Tomkins (moved from no 7) | Rate collector & schoolmaster | Kelly |
| 1895 | Thomas Tomkins (moved from no 7) | Rate collector & schoolmaster | Kelly |
| 1891 | Thomas Tomkins (moved from no 7) | Rate collector & schoolmaster | Kelly |
| 1884 | Thomas Tomkins (moved from no 7) | Rate collector & schoolmaster | Kelly |
| 1879 | Thomas Tomkins (moved from no 7) | Rate collector & schoolmaster | Thacker |
| 1875 | William Morgan Morgan | Currier, leather merchant & Maltster | Mer & Croc |
| 1871 | William Morgan Morgan | Currier, leather merchant & Maltster | Kelly |
| 1865 | William Morgan Morgan | Currier, leather merchant & Maltster | |
| 1851 |
James Jones
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Brewer & Maltster employing 8 men | Census |
Other Information
April 2026 : Chronicle now owned by Iliffe Media Group Ltd and the Fowler family. “After more than 40 years as part of the Tindle Newspaper family The Abergavenny Chronicle has been taken over by new owmers …. [source : Abergavenny Chronicle 2026 April 1]
visit to Chronicle offices 18 March 2026:
Since moving back in to the buildling in 2025, following closure for extensive restoration work, the staff now inhabit only the ground floor of this building (previously used the whole building).
The offices are often closed if all the staff are out following up stories but they aim to open on a Wednesday and Friday. The entrance and ground floor are now clean and modern but do look a bit bare – I felt the interior had definitely lost the previous atmosphere. The stairs leading to upper floors are now plain wood whereas they were once carpeted
We discussed the attic (where the Chronicle archive was once stored) and I was told this was much the same as before (although the young man admitted that he hadn’t been there long enough to know much about its previous state. I asked after the ghost, which they assured me was still present!
They mentioned that “Stump Up for Trees” were due to move in to offices on one of the upper floors shortly (to be followed up)
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