Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Beech Hill House
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
- 51.71150, -2.90795
- Cadw reference
- 2210
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
NW of the town, near the community boundary, on a hillside facing S in a parkland setting
History
Built circa 1800 on the site of an earlier house. Porch was enclosed with matching stone late C20.
Exterior
Small country house. Built of fine jointed ashlar with shallow-pitched slate roof behind parapet with shallow coping; long narrow rendered ridge stacks. Two storeys. 3-window range of 12-pane sashes in reveals with wide block voussoirs to first floor; ground floor has wider tri-partite sashes incorporating metal mullions either side of central flat-roofed porch with 4 slender Doric columns supporting an entablature with Lombard frieze; attached columns to rear. Double part-glazed doors with fanlight. Stepped plinth. Stucco-rendered to W side with stone quoins exposed; 2 window range of similar sashes separated by painted downpipe from hopper. Similar to E, with a single window range of tripartite sashes to each floor. Attached to each side is the high stone wall of a former walled garden.
Interior
Interior retains panelled shutters and doors, staircase with wreathed handrail and stick balusters, simple plaster mouldings and one fireplace, painted, but the interior was mostly reordered in mid C20.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved early C19 small country house.
Nearby in the register
- Plas-newyddDomesticunder 1 mi
- Entrance Gateway to Plas-newyddDomesticunder 1 mi
- Entrance gateway to Porth-y-carnNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Usk Castle (Unoccupied Parts)Castleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.