7 and 9 Monk Street About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information Address: 7 and 9 Monk Street Present Occupier: Sundarbon Kitchen Present Owner: Ground Floor: Other Floors: Date when first used by present occupier:   About the Building No 9 is up against the Monk’s Gate (East Gate) of the Medieval Town Wall. Source Gwyn Jones. It is attached to St Mary’s Chambers and was in common ownership. It may have been built at the same time, but the frontage has been modernised.   Recent History 2015: January:serious fire burnt out the building and flats above. The Sundarbon restaurant and neighbouring buildings have been shored up with scaffolding and in 2016 began repairs, obstructing the main A40 with one-way working. […]

6 Monk Street, Laburnum Cottage About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information Address: 6 Monk Street, Laburnum Cottage Present Occupier: Present Owner: Ground Floor: Residence Other Floors: Date when first used by present occupier:   About the Building Listed Building Grade II No. 87850 Laburnum Cottage– this building was Grade II Listed on 11 January 1974: see https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300087850-laburnum-cottage-including-front-railings-wall-and-gate-abergavenny The house is built partly on the lane that ran at the back of Cross Street and carried on past the Tithe Barn (Beili Lane). A doorway from the next house (now blocked up) once led to it when it was a small restaurant. The left hand wall is the line of the Town Wall; a section of the Town Wall, present when an […]

5A Monk Street About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information Address: 5A Monk Street Present Occupier: Present Owner: Ground Floor: Other Floors: Accommodation Date when first used by present occupier:   About the Building It seems probable that this property was formerly part of the Great George Inn. The cellars of the Inn extend under 5A and No 5.     Recent History From about 1988 to November 2024 :  The Jewellery Workshop – on this site since about 1988. The jewelleryworkshop website says that the shop had been open “for the past 36 years”.  Two men – one was large, one was small.  They divided the work neatly – the larger man worked on jewellery – repairs and adapting […]

5 Monk Street About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information Address: 5 Monk Street Present Occupier: Pick your Pleasure Deli Present Owner: Simon Hayworth Ground Floor: Other Floors: Date when first used by present occupier: Opened 22/3/25   About the Building Damaged by fire 2015 and under renovation December 2015 Probably originally part of the Great George Hotel as the cellars extend under this building and the adjacent 5A. The basement has a Tudor arch. A reused ship’s mast goes through the house as a newel to the spiral staircase. Drawings by Rob Hall, Conservation Officer Monmouth District Council, suggest that this was a timber framed building with a jettied upper floor and a new shop front built forward of this. […]

4 Monk Street About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information Address: 4 Monk Street Present Occupier: Car park Lloyd’s Bank Present Owner: Ground Floor: Property demolished Other Floors: Date when first used by present occupier:   About the Building Before the building present in 1979-80 was put up by the South West Electricity Board in 1932 for a storeroom, there were two small cottages above the site, possibly part of the old Queen Head Hotel (see 50-52 Cross Street). In the 1920s Wibberley’s the corn Merchants at 50, Cross Street, used the cottages for storerooms. It was said that rats could be seen running across the window ledges. There was a raised pavement, like that in Market Street,  along this […]

3 Monk Street About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information Address: 3 Monk Street Present Occupier: Part of Great George Hotel Present Owner: A Griffiths Ground Floor: Wholesale license Other Floors: Hotel Date when first used by present occupier: 20–   About the Building Part of George Hotel, being refurbished December 2015. During the refurbishment the wording “The Great George Whitbread Freehouse” was removed from the wall on the corner of Monk Street.  The paint colour was changed but the building remained closed. Text to come.     Recent History Often dealing with wholesale, or the off license trade. Being refurbished December 2015.     Previous Occupiers Year Name Detail Source 1970 Army recruiting Office during and after WW2 Kelly […]