Click here to skip to individual properties Introduction to St John’s Street and Square A map from 1760 shows the poultry market in St John’s Street. There is evidence to suppose that the triangular area enclosed by Nevill Street (Rother Street until the 19th century) High Street and St John’s Lane (Chicken Street on the 1834 map) was the original market of the town. It includes St John’s Church which was probably there before the town wall was built and the Bull, Cow and Vine Tree Inns. Butchers’ Row (now Flannel Street) may also have been part of this complex as areas of cobbling were found by the Vine Tree Inn and in the Flannel Street excavation area (see […]

  Click here to skip to individual properties Introduction to Nevill Street Nevill Street background and the area around St John’s Church Town Wall (remains of behind Nevill Street) Listed Building Grade II No: 2377 Grade II listed on 1 November 1974 – see britishlistedbuildings.co.uk This information is based on the original Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980. Nevill Street began when the medieval town wall was built after the first murage grant in 1241 and the land inside was divided into burgage plots fronting onto the main streets of the town, i.e. Castle Street, Nevill Street and Cross Street – High Street. There is a map made in 1760 showing the poultry market in St John’s Street. Sketch map […]

  Click here to skip to individual properties Introduction to Monk Street GENERAL BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION TO MONK STREET This information is based on the original Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980. The numbering of the street is difficult. Even numbers on the north side begin at No 4 (no 2 having been demolished and No 6 represents the space below it). The lean-to shop against no 10 is included with no 8 (Laburnum House). The even numbers continue to no 32, (Gabbs) and in the C19th records (before the new Hereford Road was built), they followed the street turning right with nos 34 to 40, which are now on the corner of Ross Road (once Ireland Street). These houses […]

  Click here to skip to individual properties Introduction to Market Street GENERAL BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION TO MARKET STREET This information is based on the original Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980. This is one of the main west-east routes dividing the planned late Norman 13th century town into its typical regular blocks. Market Street now runs from the wide north end of Cross Street, where the early Market House once stood in the middle of the road, to Lion Street. In a deed of 1616 it is merely referred to as ‘the lane leading from the High Crosse towards Kebie’ and appears on early sketch maps as Little Lane. On the 1800 map the track goes only as far […]

  Click here to skip to individual properties Introduction to High Street HIGH STREET  based on the original Abergavenny Local History Society  Survey 1980. This runs from the medieval north gate to the crossing of Flannel Street and Market Street.  The east side still shows burgage pattern, but almost certainly the “wedge” behind the west side which includes St John’s Church building, now used as a Masonic Hall, suggests an early market site. It first appears as a street in the C14 Lord of Abergavenny records. The name, High Street, comes from the Norman custom of raising their roadways on an embankment above or higher than the surrounding land. It is the commonest name for a street in the United […]

  Click here to skip to individual properties Introduction to Frogmore Street GENERAL BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION TO FROGMORE STREET This information is based on the original Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980. Numbers run from the medieval north gate, marked by the Abergavenny Local History Society Blue Plaque on number 2 Frogmore Street (HSBC Bank) to the junction with St Michael’s Road. Properties beyond the War Memorial monument, including Frogmore Street chapel, are only partially covered in the survey. Numbers on the west side of the street return from the gardens at the junction of Regent Street southward to the site of the medieval gate again, now no. 70 (The Principality Building Society). After about 1850, a new part of Brecon […]

  Click here to skip to individual properties Introduction to Flannel Street GENERAL BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION TO FLANNEL STREET This information is based on the original  Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980. The street once linked Cross Street (the main thoroughfare of the walled medieval town) to Castle Street, which was probably the centre of the prehistoric settlement and later (11th and 12th centuries), one of the main streets in the first planted Norman town of Bergevensis. In the early 1960s, the western end (along with most of Castle Street and Tudor Street) was demolished to make way for the building of the main Post Office.   Before rebuilding began, the Abergavenny Archaeology Group carried out a rescue excavation and found pottery and a flint arrow […]

  Click here to skip to individual properties Introduction to Cross Street Based on the original Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980. Today, the street extends from the Town Hall to the Swan, now converted from an inn to commercial use.  At one time, the premises below the Coach & Horses Inn (once the Sun Inn and, much earlier, the site of the south gate of the medieval town wall) were sometimes recorded as a part of Mill Street.   The 1881 map shows that the block of houses now nos. 22-23a opposite the then Sun Inn, were previously built on the line continuing that of nos. 20 and 21, thus making the road very narrow at the site of the […]