Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No.15 New Market Street, and attached iron railings
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
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 April 2004
- Locality
- Usk
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Usk
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70132, -2.90504
- Cadw reference
- 82770
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
Near the top of the E New Market Street range in the wider part of the street, adjacent to the Museum, set back behind a small front garden.
History
C18 frontage with C19 glazing.
Exterior
Town-house with Georgian frontage, later glazing, attached at each side. Roughcast-rendered and painted with slate roof and shared brick end stack to right. Two storeys; first floor windows have cambered heads and replaced glazing. Ground floor has slate roofed canted bay windows with large-pane sashes either side of centre doorway. This has a segmental-arched bracketed hood, architrave and 6-panelled door with glazed upper light. Walls with spikes extend from corners and adjoin stone front kerb with railings and double gates with oak-leaf and urn finials.
Reason for designation
Listed as a C18 house retaining historic fabric and character. Group value with other listed buildings in New Market Street.
Nearby in the register
- 17 New Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Usk Rural Life MuseumRecreationalunder 1 mi
- 19 New Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden Wall at No.16 New Market Street (The Lawns)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.