5 High Street
About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information
| Address: | 5 High Street |
| Present Occupier: | Pandora Closed beginning January 2026 |
| Present Owner: | |
| Ground Floor: | |
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| Date when first used by present occupier: |
About the Building
Post Medieval. [Source: Cofelin NPRN: 37042 see https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/37042/ viewed 13/9/2025]
C1989 The windows above ground level were replaced and two more added when the External walls were rebuilt. The window positioning and style now match that of No 6 High Street. “New upper floor windows shall be of painted timber construction. The window shall be of the same size and located within the wall thickness with the same external reveals as existing equivalent windows on No 6 High Street adjacent.” [Source: Planning permission “Re-building of Front Elevation Roof and External Walls with integration of New Structure” 30206 Alt Ref DC/1988/01584 approved 9/3/1989 Decision letter29/8/2009 paragraph 7]
Planning applications for changes to the Shop Front were made by both Phones 4U in 2002 and Pandora in 2015. [Phones 4U Source: Planning permission Submitted by Phones 4U for “Installation of Replacement Shop Front” M06646 Alt ref DC/2002/00006 approved 20/2/2002] [Pandora Source: Planning application for“Replacement shop front” DC/2015/01143]
Recent History
Pandora closed beginning of January 2026 [source Abergavenny Voice on FB seen 8 January]
From at least 2017 September: Pandora [Source: Google Street View Sept 2017 viewed 10/9/2025] In October 2015 Pandora submitted a planning application for replacement of shopfront. At this point the building was vacant. [Source: Planning application no: DC/2015/01143 Officers Report 12/11/2015]
From at least 2010 – 2014: Phone 4 U “29 jobs to go as 5 Gwent Phones 4u stores close in Newport, Abergavenny, Cwmbran and Monmouth” [2010 date Source:Planning application for Rebuilding of Front Elevation Roof and External Walls with Integration of New Structure Ref: 30206 approved 27/8/2009] [2014 date Source: South Wales Argus online 23 September 2014 viewed 10/9/2025]
From 1973: Thorntons, chocolate shop.
From 1967: Kelvin shoes, shoe shop.
From 1952: Bata, shoe shop, occupied the building. Listed as the British Bata Shoe Company from 1956.
Previous Occupiers
| Year | Name | Detail | Source |
| 1937 | Reginald John Harrhy | Hairdressers | Kelly |
| 1934 | Reginald John Harrhy | Hairdressers, tobacco sales and umbrella repairs | Kelly |
| 1930 | Reginald John Harrhy | Hairdressers, tobacco sales and umbrella repairs | Car/Npt & Dis |
| 1926 | Reginald John Harrhy | Hairdressers, tobacco sales and umbrella repairs | Kelly |
| 1923 | Reginald John Harrhy | Hairdressers, tobacco sales and umbrella repairs | Kelly |
| 1920 | Reginald John Harrhy Junior | Hairdressers, tobacco sales and umbrella repairs | Kelly |
| 1914 | R Harrhy | Hairdressers, tobacco sales and umbrella repairs | Kelly |
| 1910 | Mrs Eliza Harrhy | Hairdressers, tobacco sales and umbrella repairs | Kelly |
| 1906 | Mrs Eliza Harrhy | Hairdressers, tobacco sales and umbrella repairs | Kelly |
| 1901 | Thomas Harrhy | Hairdressers, tobacco sales and umbrella repairs | Kelly |
| 1895 | Thomas Harrhy | Hairdressers, tobacco sales and umbrella repairs | Kelly |
| 1891 | Thomas Harrhy | Hairdressers, tobacco sales and umbrella repairs | Kelly |
| 1884 | Thomas Harrhy | Hairdressers, tobacco sales and umbrella repairs | Kelly |
| 1879 | Thomas Harrhy | Hairdressers, tobacco sales and umbrella repairs | Thacker |
| 1877 | Thomas Harrhy | Hairdressers, tobacco sales and umbrella repairs | Owen |
| 1875 | Thomas Harrhy | Hairdressers, tobacco sales and umbrella repairs | Mer & Croc |
| 1871 | Thomas Harrhy | Hairdressers, tobacco sales and umbrella repairs | Kelly |
| 1865 | Thomas Harrhy | Toydealer, perfumer | Webster |
| 1858 | George Herring | Toydealer, perfumer, tobacco | Slater |
| 1850 | John Evans | Tailor (employing 4 men) | Pigot |
| 1827 | Mr and Mrs John Bright | Seller of silk, shawls and dresses | Pigot |
Other Information
Information from Abergavenny Local History Survey 1980
Between 1914 and 1934, the building was also part of the Greyhound Hotel.
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