Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No.41 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
- 51.69993, -2.90445
- Cadw reference
- 82775
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
Towards the centre of the range facing the Market Hall.
History
An early origin, remodelled in early C19. Old photos show building as F Nelmes Grocery both with earlier C19 shopfront and the high quality 1920s shopfront removed in 2003.
Exterior
Town-house with Georgian frontage and remains of later shopfront, attached at each side. Rendered, scored and painted with half-hipped slate roof incorporating a small gabled dormer; centre cross-ridge brick stack. The roof is not continuous between the two units. Two storeys and attic. An uneven arrangement of windows reflecting earlier building history. First floor has a 16-pane horned sash to right and a canted bay with 12 and 8-pane sashes to left, the top continuous with eaves. Ground floor has doorway with classical doorcase, fluted pilasters, pediment hood and 6-panelled door with overlight at right end, tripartite sash window. At left remains of a projecting shopfront removed to form vehicle entrance in 2003. Railings with blunted arrow and urn finials extend across the house frontage.
Reason for designation
Listed as a building of early origin with Georgian facade, an integral part of this range of Old Market Street opposite the Market Hall. Group value with other listed buildings in New Market Street and Old Market Street
Nearby in the register
- Nos.43 & 45 Old Market Street and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Buxton House and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Nos.43 & 45 Old Market Street, and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- No.37 Old Market Street, and attached railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.