Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ty Basket
Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1974
- Locality
- Usk
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Usk
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70450, -2.90087
- Cadw reference
- 2139
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
A corner position, just below Usk Castle.
History
Former Turnpike toll house. The Monmouth road was constructed under the Usk Turnpike Act just prior to the Tithe Map of 1846 and visible on that. Previously the E route out of Usk was via Four Ash Street. Its original use finished in 1880.
Exterior
Small toll-house in cottage orne style. Built of stone rubble; hexagonal slate roof with thick terracotta ridge tiles and central brick stack. Single storey. One window with drip moulds and painted brick voussoirs to each of the two street-facing elevations; cross-framed glazing with leaded quarries. Angled central dootway with bracketed hipped roofed porch; 5-panelled door with side lights.
Reason for designation
Listed as an interesting survival of this building type.
Nearby in the register
- 8 Castle StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wall to Castle Parade HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castle Parade HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Monmouthshire House, including front iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.