Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Riverside House, and attached iron railings
Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Usk, Monmouthshire, designated on 16 February 1953.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 February 1953
- Locality
- Usk
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Usk
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70034, -2.90501
- Cadw reference
- 2173
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
In the centre of the lower W range, opposite the war memorial.
History
Present house built 1835, by the Nichol/Wyatt family of architects who lived at adjacent Ynys Hafod, for Judge Falconer.
Exterior
Early C19 house. Stucco-rendered and painted with slate roof incoporating two gabled dormers; rendered end stacks, taller to right. Symmetrical frontage; central gabled bay breaks forward slightly. Two storeys. Three-window range of sashes in reveals, 6-pane to first floor, tripartite to ground floor, 6-pane to dormers. Steps up to central doorway incorporating archivolt with keystone extending to stringcourse and wide impost bands; recessed door with fluted quarter-round columns to surround, 3 horizontal panels and fanlight above. Plinth. Wrought iron railings with spear and urn finials and scrolled supports on a low kerb with central double gates.
Interior
Interior has wide central hall with stairs rising to rear with wreathed handrail and stick balusters. Shutters, 6-panelled doors. One marble fireplace and servant room fireplace.
Reason for designation
Well-preserved late Georgian townhouse. Group Value with other listed buildings in New Market Street.
Nearby in the register
- Ivy House, and attached irailingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ynys HafodDomesticunder 1 mi
- South African War Memorial in front of The Town HallCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Min Yr AfonDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.