Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
10 Twyn Square
Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Usk, Monmouthshire, designated on 30 April 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 30 April 2004
- Locality
- Usk
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Usk
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70342, -2.90226
- Cadw reference
- 82716
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)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (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)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The lower end of the W range of Twyn Square.
History
Former smithy, used as a car repair garage in C20.
Exterior
Former smithy, attached to number 8. Of limewashed stone with part-hipped slate roof incorporating rooflights. Central double doorway with wooden lintel and further doorway converted to window to right; small upper floor window above.
Reason for designation
Listed as a building retaining historic fabric to complete the W range of Twyn Square, for group value with other listed buildings in the Square.
Nearby in the register
- Tail EndDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Nag's Head PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Jubilee ClockGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- The Midland Bank, and attached iron railingsCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.