Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No.3 Porthycarne Street, and attached iron railings
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
- 51.70374, -2.90375
- Cadw reference
- 2186
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
Adjoins The Three Salmons Hotel.
History
Used as the Catholic church hall. The site of the original Catholic church in Usk before the building further N of the church of St Francis Xavier and St David Lewis in 1847/1865 by Charles Hansom.
Exterior
Small hall. Roughcast rendered and painted. Slate roof. One storey. Two window range of 12-pane sashes in reveals. Round-arched doorway with bracketed gabled hood and 6-panelled door with blocked fanlight. Railings on a stone kerb with scrolled and urn finials, continuous with numbers 5 & 7.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of a continuous terrace on W side of Porthycarne Street retaining its historic character and fabric. Group value with other listed buildings in Porthycarne Street.
Nearby in the register
- No.5 Porthycarne Street, and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Three Salmons HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Laurels, and attached iron railings, gate piers and barnDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Livery and Bait Stables at the The Three Salmons HotelDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.