Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Laurels, and attached iron railings, gate piers and barn
Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Usk, Monmouthshire, designated on 1 April 1974.
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
- 51.70383, -2.90400
- Cadw reference
- 2188
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
At the N end of the terrace extending from The Three Salmons Hotel.
History
Early C19 frontage to an earlier, C16-17, farmhouse, indicated by the steeper pitched roof. One of the outermost plots of the medieval town, the small barn adjacent was built within the filled-in medieval town ditch. in C19/C20 the home of Sidney Hiley owner of Usk naptha works.
Exterior
Georgian frontage. Roughcast rendered and painted with steep-pitched slate roof, bracketed boarded eaves, narrow corniced brick end stacks. Two storeys. A symmetrical frontage: a 3-window range of sashes in reveals, tripartite except for one 12-pane sash at first floor centre. Central doorway with console-bracketed entablature, deep panelled reveals and 6-panelled door with polygonally glazed overlight. Painted plinth. Attached railings on kerb with scrolled and urn finials continuous with numbers 3 and 5, terminating at right in tall stone gatepiers with stepped caps. Long raised rear wing with rubble stone ground floor and first floor of brown brick with buff dressings; segmental arched sashesm Attached small stone barn of rubble with slate roof, blocked central doorway to road with timber lintel; remains of lime render.
Reason for designation
Listed as a Georgian townhouse retaining 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
- No.3 Porthycarne Street, and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old Bank House, and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Littlebank, and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.