14 High Street
About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information
| Address: | 14 High Street |
| Present Occupier: | Take 2 Coffee Shop |
| Present Owner: | |
| Ground Floor: | Take 2 Coffee Shop |
| Other Floors: | Take 2 Coffee Shop |
| Date when first used by present occupier: | October 2025 |
About the Building
Information from Abergavenny Local History Survey 1980:
“A prickly Edwardian insertion into a dignified Georgian Street” [Source: quote by Louis Hurley]
There is a stained glass window in the back of the shop with the words “Good Shoes” inscribed in it in stained glass, with a flourish. A very nice piece of glass of its type. (Is this still there in the C21?)
Recent History
2025 Oct – : Take 2 Coffee Shop
2021 Feb – 2025 Sept: The Gaff, coffee shop & deli, owners Daniel Saunders & Danielle; (own The Gaff, restaurant in courtyard Lion Street at bottom of Market St) [2021 year, Source: South Wales Argus online 13 Feb 2021] End September 2025 the owner retired & lease up for renewal [Source : local knowledge from another business owner]
From 2005 Feb – 2020: Coffee No. 1 : small coffee chain (see “other info” section) opened 5 Feb 2005. Closed on lockdown in March 2020 and announced in August 2020 they would not be re-opening.
Previous Occupiers
| Year | Name | Detail | Source |
| 2005 Feb 5th – | Coffee No 1 | Coffee shop | ALHS Survey |
| Date unknown – 2004 | Crickhowell Adventure Gear | Outdoor equipment | Monmouthshire planning application M10703 31/8/2004 |
| 1982 – date unknown | Gwent Travel | “your new Abergavenny Travel Centre” | ALHS Survey 1980 |
| 1971/2 – 1982 | Paynes | Dairy products, cooked meats | ALHS Survey 1980 |
| 1962 – c1971 | Shoefayre | one of the first national shoe stores | ALHS Survey 1980 |
| 1954 | Dunn’s shoe shop | ALHS Survey 1980 | |
| 1937 | Dunn’s Footwear Ltd | Boot & shoe makers and dealers (to 1937) | Kelly |
| 1934 | Dunn’s Footwear Ltd | Boot & shoe makers and dealers (to 1937) | Kelly |
| 1930 | Dunn’s Footwear Ltd | Boot & shoe makers and dealers (to 1937) | Car/Npt & Dis |
| 1926 | Dunn’s Footwear Ltd | Boot & shoe makers and dealers (to 1937) | Kelly |
| 1921 | Publican : William John Eustense | The Guildhall Vaults Closed 1921 |
Kelly |
| 1920 | Publican : Charles Davies | The Guildhall Vaults | Kelly |
| 1914 | Publican : William John Eustense 1914 Owner Henry Jeffreys 1914 |
The Guildhall Inn | Kelly / Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding |
| 1910 |
Prop William Scott |
The Guildhall Inn | Kelly |
| 1909 | The Guildhall Inn | ||
| 1906 |
Prop : Thomas George Jones |
The Guildhall Inn | Kelly |
| 1901 |
Publican : Henry Lewis |
The Guildhall Inn | Kelly |
| 1895 |
Prop : Philip Price |
The Guildhall Inn | Kelly |
| 1891 |
Prop : Philip Price |
The Guildhall Inn | Kelly |
| 1884 | Publican William James Gimlett 1880-1882 Philip Price 1884-1895 |
The Guildhall Inn | Kelly/ Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding |
| 1879 | Publican J C Harrhy 1879 | The Guildhall Inn | Thacker/ Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding |
| 1877 | Publican John Stepney 1876 | The Guildhall Inn | Owen / Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding |
| 1875 | Publican : James W Tranter 1872-1875 Owner John Lewis 1873-1882 |
The Guildhall Inn | Mer & Croc / Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding |
| 1871 | The Guildhall Inn | Kelly | |
| >1868 | Owner Mrs Jones 1868-1872 Publican : John Harrhy & Mrs Harrhy |
The Guildhall Inn | Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding |
| 1865 | Guildhall Wine & Spirits Vaults , Land Agent & Surveyor |
Prop : John Gethin Jones |
Webster |
| 1862 |
Publican : John Gethin James 1860-1865 |
The Guildhall Inn | Morris & Co / Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding |
| 1858 | The Guildhall Inn | Slater | |
| 1852 | Publican : Elisha Watkins (1851/1852) Owner : William Jones 1851-1860 |
Brewer & Maltster : The Guildhall Inn |
Census / Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding |
| 1835 | Rees Prosser |
Tailor |
Pigot |
| 1822 | Rees Prosser | Hats & Clothier | Pigot |
Other Information
Source : Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding
The Guildhall Inn (formerly the Three Salmons – only listed as this name in 1852 trade directory. Elisha Watkins is recorded a sa brewer and maltster who had also been running the brewery in Lion Street, formerly occupied by William Ellis since at least 1850. An Elisha Watkins is recorded as a brewer as early as 1818 when his wife, Sarah, died. It is not know whether this is the same man or where his premises were at that time.
By 1860 the pub was called simply the Guildhall. By 1865, known as the Guildhall Wine and Spirits Vault. By 1868, known as the Guildhall Hotel. By 1920s it was again known as the Guildhall Vaults. Closed in 1921
Information from Val Llewellyn:
I was undertaking some research on Ancestry re a 2g Grandfather, and determined that he was the Innkeeper of the Guildhall Inn as noted on the 1871 Wales Census. His name was Thomas Denner and his wife was Eunice. He was also a Tinplate Brazier, whilst he came from a family of shoemakers/drapers operating in Mill Street. In 1881, he is recorded as being an Innkeeper in Lion Street (pub unknown).
Coffee #1 started in Wood Street in Cardiff in 2001. Now 50 branches around Wales, South West and South Coast. [Source: Website]
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