Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
1 Twyn Square
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
- 51.70387, -2.90196
- Cadw reference
- 2201
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
Adjoining the former United Reformed Church at the top of the Square (E), set back from the road by a wide pavement.
History
C19 frontages to houses which are certainly older as shown by the steep-pitched roof with A-frame trusses and battered plinth. Twyn Square was an early market square.
Exterior
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Interior
No.5 now a shop has been refurbished with boxed in now metal beams and C20 staircase. Blocked side window with lintel to wall adjoining hotel.
Reason for designation
A range of cottages retaining historic fabric and character. Group Value with other listed structures in the square.
Nearby in the register
- 3 Twyn SquareDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box adjoining forecourt wall at United Reformed ChurchCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- 5 Twyn SquareDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Castle InnCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.