Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
New Court Hotel
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
- 51.70049, -2.90196
- Cadw reference
- 2151
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
Just NW of The Sessions House.
History
Early C19 and associated with the court house almost opposite.
Exterior
Georgian-fronted inn. A two-unit range comprising main inn to right and accommodation block to left. Rendered and painted with shallow pitch slate roof and low stacks: at end right and shared with no. 60 and at division between units. Main unit has a 3-window range of 16-pane sashes in painted surrounds with stone sills; similar to ground floor either side of central panelled doorcase with round-headed doorway with 4-panelled door; cellar entrance below window to right; plinth. Unit to left has 12-pane sashes in painted surrounds to each floor and two 4-panelled doors.
Interior
Inn interior has small open fireplace with timber lintel at front left. Bar incorporates good quality polished woodwork reputedly from a ship. Substantially extended to rear. A through passage leads from right doorway of left unit; stairs rise off to hotel rooms on first floor.
Reason for designation
Listed as an inn retaining historic fabric and character, part of the lower Maryport Street range. Historic connections and group value with The Sessions House opposite and Usk Prison.
Nearby in the register
- 60 Maryport StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 58 Maryport StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box adjoining No.72 Maryport StreetCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- 50 Maryport StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.