Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wood Cutter's Cottage
Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 March 1988
- Locality
- Usk
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Usk
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70174, -2.90262
- Cadw reference
- 82795
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
Part of a group set back from road with cobbled forecourts and stone-flagged paths.
Exterior
Belongs to a group of 2
24 & 26 Maryport Street
Pair of cottages. Roughcast rendered and contrastingly colour-washed with long slate roof, deep overhanging eaves incorporating hipped roof dormers, two to each; tall brick ridge and end stacks with cornices and band courses. Two window range to each cottage; 4-pane casements to slate-hung dormers; 6-pane casements to number 24 either side of boarded door; number 26 has glazed doorway to right with 16-pane casement to side, renewed canted bay window to left and boarded door at end left. Painted plinth.
Reason for designation
Listed as town cottages retaining historic fabric and character. Group value with other listed buildings in Maryport Street.
Nearby in the register
- 24 Maryport StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 22 Maryport StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ashley HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 20 Maryport StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.