Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
20 New Market Street
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
- 51.70072, -2.90509
- Cadw reference
- 2171
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
Set between the half-timbered number 18 and the long range of Ynys Hafod.
History
Early C19. Believed to have been built 1827. Former coach-house and stable range to Ynys Hafod.
Exterior
Former coach-house/stable range converted to dwelling. Roughcast-rendered and painted, shallow-pitched slate roof with sprocketed eaves. L-shaped plan. Two storeys. Three bays wide, the centre projecting and gabled; platband, plinth. Casement windows, all C20 glazing: single triple-lights at centre on each floor, narrow flanking ground floor lights. Deep painted stone plinth. All glazing to rear is C20.
Reason for designation
Listed as a part of the street frontage and for group value with other listed buildings in New Market Street.
Nearby in the register
- 18 New market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- HenllysDomesticunder 1 mi
- Min Yr AfonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Railings and Gates at Ynys Hafod and Min Yr AfonDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.