Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Newmarket Cottage
Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Usk, Monmouthshire, designated on 1 April 1974.
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
- 51.70021, -2.90431
- Cadw reference
- 2163
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the very lower E end of the street, on the corner with Old Market Street.
History
Probably early C19.
Exterior
Side elevation of Newmarket Cottage is attached to the Kings Head Hotel in Old Market Street.
Interior
Interior retains panelled shutters and doors, staircase with wreathed handrail and stick balusters, simple plaster mouldings and one fireplace, painted, but the interior was mostly reordered in mid C20.
Reason for designation
Listed as late Georgian cottages retaining bow windows.
Nearby in the register
- 39 New Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 37 New Market StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Kings Head HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- 35 New Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.