Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No.3 Old Market Street, and attached iron railings
Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
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
- 51.70072, -2.90265
- Cadw reference
- 82771
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 chapel.
History
Mid C19. Formerly the manse to the chapel built 1842.
Exterior
Early Victorian house with later glazing. Stucco rendered and painted with shallow-pitched slate roof, the eaves extended left to abut the chapel, hipped to rear. Two storeys. Two full-height canted bay windows with pitched slate roofs directly under eaves and 4-pane horned sashes. Central doorcase with bracketed open pediment, narrow side panels, diamond-glazed overlight and recessed C20 door. Low wall adjoining chapel pier with similar but lower railings with spear finials.
Reason for designation
Listed as a house contemporary with the listed early-mid C19 chapel adjacent. Group value with other listed buildings in the street.
Nearby in the register
- Baptist Church and attached iron railingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 17 Old Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- No.1 Old Market Street, and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 19 Old Market StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.