14 Nevill Street
About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information
| Address: | 14 Nevill Street |
| Present Occupier: | Woolcroft |
| Present Owner: | Ginevra Croft |
| Ground Floor: | Wool and craft materials |
| Other Floors: | 14B Accommodation |
| Date when first used by present occupier: | June 2019 |
About the Building
Listed Building Grade II No:2463
No 14B Grade II listed on 1 November 1974 see https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300002463-nos14b-16-18-pen-y-pound-road-gwent-abergavenny
[NB: British listed buildings show the building captioned ‘Nevill Street’ & it’s correctly located on their map but they’ve named it Pen-Y-Pound Road, Gwent. This is the correct entry for No 2463 14B Nevill Street [checked on CADW site]
Probably built around 1600 with an extra floor added about 1780 (Welsh Office)
Nos 14-26 Nevill Street were owned by Iltyd Gardiner. When making alterations to No 14, he found an altar stone, presumably from St John’s Church; it is now in use at Trinity Church, Abergavenny. (source: C Price)
He also found a fireplace overmantel and a stained glass window which he transferred to the house that he was building in Govilon “Coed y Twyn” which was occupied by Mr Gethin Jones.
In 1976, Charles Price undertook extensive alterations to the front of the building. It appeared to have had 3 successive frontages: 1. jettied (a half timbered, gabled frontage) 2. flush with no 12 3. as now.
The sills on the first floor windows are original. The height of these windows was doubled in about 1780 and the long original beam cut up and placed on top of the windows. The goats’ heads on this old beam were added in the 18th century as were the famous cows’ heads above (the top left hand one is a modern replacement).
There was a big chimney stack in the left hand corner at this time and a post with “perpendicular” type carving on it – probably Jacobean strap work of an unusual design.
The Chevron with the three children’s heads is the Vaughan crest, as seen at Tretower and Great Campston. The billet moulding is a pre-Elizabethan feature. The red rose of Lancaster would be for one of the Vaughan family (Davy Gam) who fought for Henry lV. (Source: L Hurley)
It is thought that this was the Vaughan family town house 1500-1600.
Recent History
2019 : June : Woolcroft moved from 9 Cross Street [still in situ, as at 15/4/2025]
2000-2019 February. Trading post – a coffee and eating house. Moved to 27 Nevill Street in 2019
Previous Occupiers
| Year | Name | Detail | Source |
| 1989-1991 | Charles Price Ltd. |
Leisure furniture (14-18), lighting, wallpaper, soft furnishings (14-18)
|
ALHS |
| 1993 | Charles Price Ltd. |
Soft furnishings, lighting, art department, garden furnitre
|
ALHS |
| 1988 | Charles Price Ltd. |
DIY store
|
ALHS |
| 1984 | Charles Price Ltd. |
Builders supplies (14-18)
|
ALHS |
| 1981 | Charles Price Ltd. |
Decorator
|
ALHS |
| 1970 | Charles Price Ltd (with nos 16 & 18) Labour Club (with house 14a upstairs) |
Interior decorating supplies
|
Kelly |
| 1968 | Charles Price Ltd. |
Homewares
|
ALHS |
| 1960 | Charles Price Ltd. |
Paint & decorators merchants: clerk required typing essential
|
ALHS |
| 1937 | Abergavenny Trades Council & Labour Party |
W J Summers, hon sec.
|
Kelly |
| 1934 | YWCA | Kelly | |
| 1926 | YWCA | Secretary: Miss Radford | Kelly |
| 1921 |
W J Cox
|
Bootmaker & repairs | Kelly |
| 1914 | J H Higgins | Baker | Kelly |
| 1912 | Nevill Temperance Hotel | Kelly | |
| 1910 | John Thomas | Baker | Kelly |
| 1906 | John Thomas | Dining Rooms | Kelly |
| 1901 |
James Arthur Sayce
|
Dining Rooms | Kelly |
| 1871 | William Daniel | Cow Inn also Painter, plumber & decorator | Kelly |
| 1862 | William Rowley | The Cow Inn | Morris & Co |
| 1858 | Margaret E Morse | The Cow Inn | Slater |
| 1850 | Margaret E Morse | The Cow Inn | Pigot |
| 1844 | Rachel Price | The Cow Inn | Slater |
| 1835 | William Bruce | The Cow Inn | Pigot |
| 1822 | William Bruce | The Cow Inn Public House | Pigot |
Other Information
A pamphlet by Michael Foot was found behind the fireplace during renovations. (C Price)
For a short time 14a was a separate flat within the building entered by the door on the right of No 14.
It was called The Cow on the 1834 map and Unity House in 1934.
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