Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old Bank House, 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
- 51.70404, -2.90381
- Cadw reference
- 2191
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
Adjacent to the former stable range of The Three Salmons Hotel.
History
Early C19. Provincial Banking Corporation established here in 1860, previously occupied by a solicitor. The unusual columns were brought from Italy.
Exterior
Late Georgian villa with some Victorian alterations. Stucco rendered and painted; shallow-pitched hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and bracketed cornice. Two storeys. Three-window range of sashes in reveals with narrow glazing bars and shallow sills to first floor. Central round-arched doorway with panelled reveals and recessed part-glazed 6-panelled door with fanlight with radial glazing; later gabled surround with fluted columns with elaborate enriched capitals. Later large bay window to right with hipped slate roof and full-length windows, narrow recessed blind panels. High part-rendered rubble stone wall extends forward at left and joins with iron railings with leaf and urn finials on a stone kerb set between piers with vermiculated panels; double gates.
Reason for designation
Listed as a Georgian house with Victorian embellishments. Group value with other listed buildings in Porthycarne Street.
Nearby in the register
- Littlebank, and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Laurels, and attached iron railings, gate piers and barnDomesticunder 1 mi
- No.5 Porthycarne Street, and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- No.3 Porthycarne Street, and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.