Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No.21 New Market Street, and attached iron railings
Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1974
- Community
- Usk
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70109, -2.90488
- Cadw reference
- 2159
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
Roughly in the centre of the street, set back behind a shallow front garden with high hedge.
History
A Georgian frontage to an earlier, probably C16, building.
Exterior
House with Georgian frontage attached at right. Roughcast-rendered and painted; slate roof well set back behind a parapet which has narrow stone coping and raised verges; small rendered part-external end stack at left. Two storeys. Three- window range of 12-pane sashes in reveals, the centre blind. Doorway at right with shallow bracketed hood and recessed panelled part-glazed door. Plinth. Lower single storey and loft wing at left with cobbled forecourt and boarded double doors. Side wall with spikes extends from corner to join low wide wall across frontage with railings with fleur-de-lys and urn finials, part-embedded in hedge; scrolled lamp-arch to entrance at right.
Interior
Interior reported to retain early fireplace with stone lintel.
Reason for designation
Listed as a house of early origin with Georgian frontage. Group value with other listed buildings in New Market Street.
Nearby in the register
- No.23 New Market Street, and attached irailingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 19 New Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 17 New Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden Wall at No.16 New Market Street (The Lawns)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.