Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gazebo at Ynys Hafod
Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1974
- Locality
- Usk
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Usk
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70042, -2.90595
- Cadw reference
- 2172
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
Situated at rear of garden and close to bank of River Usk.
History
Early C19.
Exterior
Small Georgian gazebo. Built of stone rendered with roughcast and painted. Hexagonal with shallow pitched slate roof. Three 12-pane sash windows with lightweight wrought iron balcony screen to viewing room; lower window with hood-mould. Steps and stack to rear. Attached stone wall with archway to rear garden.
Interior
Single upper room with fireplace.
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusual example of this building type fully retaining its character. Group value with listed buildings in New Market Street, especially the Ynys Hafod complex.
Nearby in the register
- Ynys HafodDomesticunder 1 mi
- Min Yr AfonDomesticunder 1 mi
- HenllysDomesticunder 1 mi
- Riverside House, and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.