58 Cross Street
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58 Cross Street
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Cwtch Cafe
Accommodation ?
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Before and After Images
1979/80
2015
About the building
Source : Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980:Late 18th or early 19th century building (Welsh Office)
19th century shop front. Slate roof. Beam which marked end of shop, when it was a chemist is still visible (this statement at time of original survey).
1907 photograph of shop shows the same frontage as today. Present fittings are from Chemist’s shop circa 1850 (none of this is relevant in 2016)
Cellars, now filled in, are said to have led to a tunnel leading under Cross Street
Recent history
Basil Jones Grocer until it closed in 19….; In 1979, it was the oldest family grocers in the town. Some of the interior fittings and a lot of the display items from the shop can now be seen in Abergavenny Museum.
Property then became a cafe (?name) and eventually taken over again and became Cwtch cafe in ??
Previous occupiers
Year
Name
Detail
Source
to 19…??
Grocer
1937
Basil Jones
Grocer
Kelly
1934
Basil Jones
Grocer
Kelly
1930
Basil Jones
Grocer
Car/Npt & Dis
1926
Basil Jones
Grocer
Kelly
1923
Basil Jones
Grocer
Kelly
1920
Basil Jones
Grocer
Kelly
1914
Basil Jones
Grocer
Kelly
1910
Basil Jones
Grocer
Kelly
1906
Edward Martin
Grocer
Kelly
1901
Edward Martin
Grocer
Kelly
1895
Edward Martin
Grocer
Kelly
1891
Edward Martin
Grocer
Kelly
1884
Edward Martin
Grocer
Kelly
1879
Edward Martin
Grocer
Thacker
1877
Edward Martin
Grocer
Owen
1875
Edward Martin
Grocer
Mer & Croc
1871
Henry Denner
Grocer
Kelly
1865
Thomas F Humble
Chemist & Druggist
Webster
1862
Thomas F Humble
Chemist & Druggist
Hoskins
1858
Thomas F Humble
Chemist & Druggist
Slater
1850
Thomas F Humble
Chemist & Druggist
Pigot
1844
Thomas F Humble
Chemist & Druggist
Slater
1835
William Humble
Chemist & Druggist
Pigot
Other information
Source : Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980Thomas Humble (owner of this property up to 1860s, was the sole proprietor of the “celebrated Abergavenny sauce”. He moved to 56 Frogmore Street sometime between 1865 and 1871
Source : coflein.gov.uk
“Late C18 or early C19. Three storeys. Two windows. Stucco. C19 shop front with raised wood lettering. Doro to no.57 to right. Slate roof (RAJ, RCAHMW 4 December 2003: based on Cadw listing description)”
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