4B High Street
About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information
| Address: | 4B High Street |
| Present Occupier: | Holland & Barrett |
| Present Owner: | |
| Ground Floor: | Health Foods |
| Other Floors: | |
| Date when first used by present occupier: |
About the Building
All following is as shown on the history for 4A High Street – 4A and 4B was the Greyhound Hotel up to 1959.
Information from Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980:
Fragments of timber frontage were found during alterations in 1959. Cellars filled in in 1959. Top storey windows filled in in 1959 [Source: Mr Dulson]
Possibly established in 1298 [Source: Mr Jackson]
The present Greyhound Hotel (in Market Street, built 1872) was the tap bar of the old Hotel. There are slight remains of stables and hay dispensers in the back yard.
The hotel had 18 bedrooms, 4 reception rooms, bar and ballroom. Dining for 150. There was a long bar, about 25 yards long, running parallel to Market Street and it was a great meeting place for the rugby, tennis and bowling clubs.
Recent History
2026 January: Holland & Barrett : vitamins/dietary supplements still in situ [source walk by 1/2026 sm]
Previous Occupiers
| Year | Name | Detail | Source |
| From 2010/2015 |
Holland & Barrett
|
Health & Wellness store | Google maps street view 2010 Nov & 2015 Oct |
| 1979/80 |
(4b) Cavendish
|
Furniture | AHLS survey 1980 |
| 1959 |
(4b) Cavendish
|
Furniture | AHLS survey 1980 |
| 1937 to 1959 | Greyhound Hotel | Kelly & Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding | |
| 1934 | Prop : Mrs M Cotton | Greyhound Hotel | Kelly |
| 1930 | Prop : C C Daft | Greyhound Hotel | Car/Npt & Dis |
| 1926 | Greyhound Hotel | Kelly | |
| 1923 | Greyhound Hotel | Kelly | |
| 1920 | Prop : Mrs Ethel Maude Reynolds | Greyhound Hotel | Kelly |
| 1914 | Greyhound Hotel | Kelly | |
| 1910 | Prop : Mrs Emily Tovell | Greyhound Hotel | Kelly |
| 1906 | Prop : R P Culley | Greyhound Hotel | Kelly |
| 1901 | Prop : F A McGraith | Greyhound Hotel | Kelly |
| 1895 | Greyhound Hotel | Kelly | |
| 1891 | Greyhound Hotel | Kelly | |
| 1884 | Greyhound Hotel | Kelly | |
| 1879 | Prop : W Tucker | Greyhound Hotel | Thacker |
| 1877 | Prop : W Tucker | Greyhound Hotel | Owen |
| 1875 | Prop : W Tucker | Greyhound Hotel | Mer & Croc |
| 1871 | Greyhound Hotel | Kelly | |
| 1865 | Prop : Philip Morgan | Greyhound Hotel | Webster |
| 1862 | Prop : Philip Morgan | Greyhound Hotel | Morris & Co |
| 1858 | Prop : Philip Morgan | Greyhound Hotel | Slater |
| 1852 Sept | Philip Morgan | Greyhound Hotel | Hereford Times 1852 Sept 28th |
| 1850 | Prop : John Richards | Greyhound Hotel | Pigot |
| 1844 | Prop : John Richards | Greyhound Hotel | Slater |
| 1835 | Prop : John Richards | Greyhound Hotel | Pigot |
| 1822 | Prop : Thomas Evans | Greyhound Hotel | Pigot |
| 1794 | Prop : Mrs Ann Wallington | Greyhound Hotel |
Other Information
Holland & Barrett were formed in 1870 by Alfred Barrett and Major William Holland. It has undergone many changes of ownership and is now owned by a private equity group since 2010 [Source : en.wikipedia.org]
From 1959 to unknown date : Cavendish Furniture retailers with storage of furniture upstairs over no.4A. [Source: ALHS survey 1980]
On census night in 1851, there were in residence : Timothy Black, his wife and 5 children, 2 visitors and 5 servants. [Source : Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980]
1794 : Abergavenny Improvement Committee met here to redevelop the decayed Town Hall & Market
1800 : Abergavenny Society for the prosecution of felons met here
1839 : The Greyhound was owned by the Duke of Beaufort
1851 : “Paul Pry” the Daily Coach to and from London, via Gloucester, Ross & Monmouth, departed at 1.30 from here
1854 : There was a horse bus service to connect with trains
1862-65 : also Inland Revenue office
1871 : William Herring, Inland Revenue Supervisor
1927 : The murdered Brown and Kennedy stayed here
[Dates 1794-1927 Source : Thacker (quoted in original survey)]
Proprietor Philip Morgan, in 1862, also kept the Angel and a farm.
Adverts in Abergavenny Chronicle:
1967/1968 : ad for Cavendish – household goods and furnishings, washing machines, rental TVs.
1969 : ad for Cavendish “cashier required immediately due to expansion”.
1975 : ad for Cavendish “part-time collector required”.
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