Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
2 Castle Parade
Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 30 April 2004
- Locality
- Usk
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Usk
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70351, -2.90308
- Cadw reference
- 82723
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
Adjacent to the bank on the corner of Maryport Street, by the main town crossroads.
History
c 1900.
Exterior
Pair of late Victorian shops with accommodation above, attached at each side. Of red and yellow brick; slate roof with twin gables with decorative applied timbering and apex finials, resting on deeply overhanging bracketed boarded eaves; similar brick corniced stacks. Yellow brick quoins, window surrounds, eaves and billet-moulded string course. Three storeys. Each shop has a single window range of cross-framed glazing with decorative squared glazing to upper lights, plain below: tripartite to top floor, canted bay to first floor. Paired plate glass shopfronts with deep fascia with side panels enriched with incised patterns; deep angled sills to the windows and side glazed doorways; plinth.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of the late Victorian business development of the town, retaining strong character, in a dominating position.
Nearby in the register
- Barclays BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- 3 Maryport StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 Maryport StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 7 Maryport StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.