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47 Old Market Street

Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Usk, Monmouthshire, designated on 30 April 2004.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of 47 Old Market Street, Usk, Monmouthshire, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Domestic
Date of designation
30 April 2004
Locality
Usk
Town
Usk
Community
Usk
Unitary authority
Monmouthshire
Country
Wales
Coordinates
51.69986, -2.90468
Cadw reference
82742

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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Cadw's description

At the W end of the S range of the street opposite the Market Hall. Set back behind a small front garden.

Probably early C19 frontage to an earlier building.

House with early C19 front, sharing the same building line as Nos 43 and 45. rendered with scribed roughcast and painted; steep-pitched roof with brick end stack to R. Two storeys. two-window range of 12-pane sashes to first floor. Ground floor has tripartite sash at centre and doorway with wide bracketed hood and 6-panelled part-glazed door to L. Kerb at front with railings with arrow and urn finials and gate with diamond bracing.

Listed as an integral part of this important south range opposite the Market hall. Group value with other listed buildings in the lower part of Old and New Market Streets.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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