Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
10 Old Market Street
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
- 51.70045, -2.90368
- Cadw reference
- 2178
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)
- 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)
- 1905 · 250 Chepstow (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Adjacent to the King's Head Hotel and attached terrace and almost opposite the tall terrace of Nos. 17-27.
History
An eighteenth-century townhouse which was used in C20 used as Council Offices.
Exterior
Georgian townhouse. Built of stone rendered with stucco; swept slate roof with boarded overhanging sprocketed eaves; reduced part-external stack to left. Roughly L-shaped plan. Three storeys and basement. Three-window range of sashes in reveals, tripartite to sides; central first floor window has round-arched head, oculus above. Doorcase with open pediment, deep panelled reveals and fanlight with radial glazing; plinth incorporating grilles. Lower 2-storey rear paired cross wings with round-arched doorway, 12-pane sashes, wide panelled side entrance. Tri-partite sash to the main range at rear.
Reason for designation
Listed as a Georgian townhouse with well-preserved character. Group value with other listed buildings in Old Market Street.
Nearby in the register
- 29 Old Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 27 Old Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 25 Old Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 23 Old Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.