Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
12 Priory Street
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
- 51.70299, -2.90192
- Cadw reference
- 2196
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
The N of a pair of houses at the S end of the listed range on the W side of the street, opposite the garden wall to Ty-Brith.
History
C18-early C19.
Exterior
One of two Georgian-fronted adjoined townhouses sharing the same roof line and angled pitch. Roughcast rendered with slate roof with overhanging slightly swept eaves and brick corniced end stack. Three storeys. Two window range: top floor 6-pane casements break through eaves with almost flat roofs; 12-pane sashes to first floor; ground floor has wide tripartite horned sash, 4-pane to central section. Doorway to left has a small gabled hood; C20 vertically panelled door. Plinth. Roofline of former attached wing at right revealed earlier roughcast and limewash on stone.
Reason for designation
Listed as a Georgian-fronted townhouse retaining historic character and fabric. Group value with other listed buildings in Twyn Square and Priory Street.
Nearby in the register
- 14 Priory StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- No.10 Priory Street, and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden gatepiers, gates and wall at Ty-BrithDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty Brith CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.