Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Greyhound Inn
Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1974
- Locality
- Usk
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Usk
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70366, -2.89749
- Cadw reference
- 2140
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
Near the E edge of the town, and a short way E of the priory churchyard, on a corner site; Chepstow Road is the continuation of Four Ash Street.
History
Early origin suggested by deep battered gable end to right. Refurbished early - mid C19. An inn on the E town boundary serving travellers between Usk and Chepstow
Exterior
Small inn. Built of stone rubble rendered with roughcast; slate roof with overhanging boarded eaves and tall roughcast corniced end stacks. Single storey and attic. Symmetrical frontage: a full-height central gabled projecting bay with full dormer; ground floor windows either side of pointed-arched doorway with recessed door. C20 casement windows. Rear elevation shows a lower cross wing incorporated into a parallel higher and later cross wing. Two small first floor casements with shallow segmental arched heads to side.
Interior
Interior now a single room, former divisions removed. C19 fireplace to right, dado rail and boarding.
Reason for designation
An inn of early origins which has retained its character.
Nearby in the register
- Dairy BarnAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Nos.35 and 37 (part) Four Ash StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Four Ash Street, and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 31 Four Ash StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.