Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
14 Priory Street
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
- 51.70293, -2.90186
- Cadw reference
- 2197
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
The S one of a pair of listed houses on the W side of the street facing the walled garden to Ty Brith.
History
C18-early C19 with later C19 alterations to windows.
Exterior
One of two adjoined townhouses sharing the same roofline and pitch. Roughcast rendered to front, smooth and painted to side; slate roof with slightly overhanging and swept eaves brick corniced end stacks. Three storeys. Double fronted, a 2-window range in reveals; 6-pane casements to top floor, cross-framed casements with top-opening panes to the first and ground floor. Central doorway with gabled hood.
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
- 12 Priory StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- No.10 Priory Street, and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty Brith CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty'r Ardd (Garden House)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.