Former Georgian house converted to bank. Early C19. Built on the site of the Three Cranes Inn stables, demolished and replaced by two houses c 1809, when part of the premises was used by the Chepstow Bank, and subsequent banks, with an intervening period as a private house c 1849-1923.

Walls rendered with scored stucco; hipped slate roof behind parapet. Four storeys. Beaufort Square frontage has a two-window range of sashes without glazing bars to top two storeys; front entrance off square at first floor level has tripartite multipane window to right and wide doorway to left with paired pilasters and shallow enriched etablature hood and Adam-style blind overlight, double doors. Teraced forecourt extends to front over basement with railings with urn finials on stone coping. Middle Street elevation has a 4-window range of 12-pane sashes over 4 storeys. Hocker Hill Street elevation incorporates a former pair of houses with a 4-window range of sashes: 9-pane to second floor, 12-pane to first floor. Paired entrance doorways in round-arched recesses up 6 steps with 6-panelled doors and fanlights with radial glazing flanked by 12-pane sash to right, tripartite sash to left.

(Source: Cadw Listings database) S Garfi 16/11/06