27-28 Cross Street
Main details
Address:
Present Occupier:
Present Owner:
Ground Floor:
Other Floors:
Date when first used by present occupier:
27-28 Cross Street
2019: now known as Cross St Convenience Store
mini supermarket
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Before and After Images
1979/80
2016
About the building
c.1877Formerly the “Black Horse Inn”
Recent history
source : Abergavenny Local History Survey 1980:From 1970: Eric Jenkins : Motorcycle distributor and workshop; office and spare parts storage on other floors
from (not known) to 1970 : F R Ball and Liverpool & Victoria Insurance (source : Mr Horsington)
1947-1967 (1st floor) : F R Bowing : Insurance Company
From (not known) to 1947 : G Watkins : House and shop
Previous occupiers
Year
Name
Detail
Source
From 1970
Motorcycle distributors/workshop
From 1947 to 1970 :
see “Recent History”
1937
Singer Sewing Machine Co Ltd
Kelly
1934
Singer Sewing Machine Co Ltd
Kelly
1930
Singer Sewing Machine Co Ltd
Car/Npt & Dis
1926
Singer Sewing Machine Co Ltd
Kelly
1923
Singer Sewing Machine Co Ltd
Kelly
1920
Manager : Thomas Hooper
Singer Sewing Machine Co Ltd
Kelly
1910
Manager : William James Jones
Singer Sewing Machine Co Ltd
Kelly
1906
Manager : William H Irons
Singer Sewing Machine Co Ltd
Kelly
1901
Kelly
1895
Kelly
1891
John Evans
Tailor
Kelly
1884
Kelly
1879
Robert Davies
Antiques
Thacker
1842-1850
Daniel “Tanner”
(handwritten addition on Aber.Local History Survey 1980)
1850
Ann Trew or Miss Roberts ?
Butcher
(handwritten addition on Aber. Local History Survey 1980)
1835-1842
John Williams
“auctioneer”
(handwritten addition on Aber. Local History Survey 1980)
1822-1823
William Daniel ? or Thomas Watkins
(handwritten addition on Aber. Local History Survey 1980)
Other information
The Black Horse, nos 27-28 Cross Streetsource : A/4003-0 Indenture dated 6 July 1878 between the Abergavenny Improvement Commissioners and James Watkins of Abergavenny, Builder, for £400, sold him :
“a dwelling house shop passage stable yard and premises situate in Cross Street in the Town of Abergavenny late in the occupation of Emanuel Snook and now vacant and distinguished by the number 27, 27a and 28 …../ in a plan drawn of a certain indenture dated the ….. and the Commissioners …. described and conveyed as “All that messuage tenement thereto adjoining …. in a certain street or Ward called Mill Street Ward …. formerly in the occupation of William Daniel, Butcher and then of Thomas Watkins Glazier And also that other messuage … being in Mill Street Ward …. adjoining the last mentioned messuage formerly in the occupation of Mrs Ann Trew and then of Miss Roberts which said two messuages were formerly one messuage called the Black Horse Public House in the occupation of Ann Alcheson widow and John Williams and were bounded by a messuage formerly of Valentine Williams Blacksmith”
Except for an area reserved by Commissioners for widening the street a clause allowing James Watkins “…. and his workmen to enter and be on the same for the purpose of pulling down ….. the said materials”
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