16 Cross Street

About the building

Listed Building Grade II No 86879

From Abergavenny Local History Survey 1980:

Built between 1800 and 1834 (evidence of maps of these dates).  Copy sketch map of 1800 shown on original survey : property built on a garden fronting on to Castle Lane.  All the gardens fronting on to the lane were built on by the time of the Wood map of 1834.

From Gabb manuscripts : “1869 : mortgage of James Gilbert Price the younger and James Gilbert Price senior, and Elizabeth Edwards”    “All that parcel of ground formerly gardens, half acre in Cross Street Ward Abergavenny abutted by Cross Street by a dwelling house lately of James Price [this is no.18], now of John Edward Price,  messuage formerly called The Old Playhouse formerly the property of John James of Abergavenny Carpenter and a street leading from Cross Street to Castle Street on all sides.”

“On this parcel of land John Cadogen erected five houses occupied by Allen Long, Thomas Evans & Co, Margaret Wilcox, James Loveland and Thomas Evans & Co.   Then occupied by Henry Thomas and Thomas Evans and his undertenants and now by Mary Evans and her under-tenants.”

(These were 16 and 17 Cross Street and 3 small cottages in Castle Lane.   The Old Playhouse must have been in the property demolished below these new cottages)

 

Recent history

from 2013-2023 : Amanda Jayne – Italian shoes : closed very suddenly approx Oct. 2023

1983 : Pinches Bakery moved here during 1983 and started baking on the premises after Christmas 1983.  (closed in ???)

After that – various owners including a business providing children with the opportunity to paint on pottery plates

From 1947 – ?? : owner/occupier : South Herefordshire Agricultural Co-operative Society (SHACS) selling animal foodstuffs on the ground floor

Previous occupiers

 

Other information

For more information about Pinch the Bakers click  * here *.

 

From Abergavenny Local History Survey 1980 :

1851 : The firm of Evans & Long occupying 16 and 17 Cross Street, employed 130 men (information from Census).  They made boots and shoes

 

From  Abergavenny Chronicle Adverts :

1942 : advert for “Rees” selling farm animal foods

1948 : advert for South  Herefordshire Agricultural Co-operative Society Ltd (SHACS) selling agricultural feed, fertilisers etc

1957 : advert for SHACS giving a rota of delivery areas during petrol rationing

1959 : April : advert for “competent shop man”

1960 : advert for lorry driver, with accommodation available

1962 : January : a pet shop licence had been granted

1974 : advertising garden supplies

1988 : advert for A G Pinch, Bakers (1989 advert :  also had a shop in Frogmore Street)

 

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