Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Livery and Bait Stables at the The Three Salmons Hotel
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
- 51.70376, -2.90341
- Cadw reference
- 2190
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
Directly opposite The Three Salmons Hotel.
History
Mid C19. Converted to hotel accommodation 1963.
Exterior
Formerly livery and bait stables, now incorporated into hotel accommodation, attached at one side. Built of stone, roughly squared and coursed to front, painted rubble to sides; end unit to left is rendered and painted. Half-hipped slate roof. Two storeys. Five window range to main section , three to the centre bay which projects slightly. Small-pane casements, tripartite to sides, with cambered-arched heads to centre. Former stable and carriage entrances to ground floor have been blocked and filled with C20 casement windows. End unit at left side has a segmental arched former carriage entrance with keystone and stone steps up on north end wall.
Interior
Converted to living accommodation.
Reason for designation
Rare surviving example of this building type with its associations with fishing on the Usk, and retaining overall form. Group Value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- The Three Salmons HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- No.3 Porthycarne Street, and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- No.5 Porthycarne Street, and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Castle ParadeCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.