Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Midland Bank, and attached iron railings
Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1974
- Locality
- Usk
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Usk
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70369, -2.90252
- Cadw reference
- 2207
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
Forming the upper W corner of Twyn Square with side elevation to Castle Parade.
History
c1800.
Exterior
Grand former later Georgian townhouse, now bank and flats. Roughcast rendered with stucco dressings; hipped slate roof with tall brick lateral stacks. Three storeys and cellar. A symmetrical frontage. Five-window range: 9-pane sashes in reveals to top floor and 12-pane below; platband and quoin-strip, deep plinth. Central doorway with square-headed doorcase with entablature and round-arched entrance with fanlight with radiating glazing bars, C20 glazed door. Side elevation facing Castle Parade has a 4-window range of 12-pane sashes. Small front enclosure formed by tall railings with thistle finials on a rendered plinth: the gates have been re-used to form returns to the main entrance; railings joined to swept side-wall at left.
Interior
Ground floor completely refurbished as bank. Two upper floors convereted to flats. No known survival of historic features.
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine former townhouse retaining historic fabric and character. Group value with other listed buildings in Twyn Square and Castle Parade.
Nearby in the register
- The Nag's Head PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- Tail EndDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box adjoining forecourt wall at United Reformed ChurchCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- 10 Twyn SquareAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.