Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No.1 Old Market Street, and attached iron railings
Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Usk, Monmouthshire, designated on 28 December 1972.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 28 December 1972
- Locality
- Usk
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Usk
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70091, -2.90219
- Cadw reference
- 2181
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
On a corner site with Maryport Street, the main frontage facing the latter and attached to number 46; the entrance is on Old Market Street.
History
Early C19. In Coxe's map of 1800 the area is an orchard.
Exterior
Georgian town-house, attached at one side. Rendered and painted with hipped slate roof and brick end stack. Two storeys. Entrance frontage to Old Market Street has a single blocked first floor window, blocked ground floor doorway beneath and a narrower doorway with boarded door adjacent, continuous bracketed hood over. Plinth. Roof extended over lean-to. Maryport Street frontage has a 2-window range of 12-pane horned sashes. Railings with arrow-head finials are attached to the Maryport Street frontage. To rear is a small gabled cross wing with 9-pane sash.
Reason for designation
Listed as a town cottage retaining historic fabric and character. Group value with other listed buildings in Maryport Street and Old Market Street.
Nearby in the register
- 46 Maryport StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 48 Maryport StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 50 Maryport StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 42 Maryport StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.