Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
2140
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
01/04/1974  
Date of Amendment
 
Name of Property
The Greyhound Inn  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire  
Community
Usk  
Town
Usk  
Locality
Usk  
Easting
338076  
Northing
200928  
Street Side
N  
Location
Near the E edge of the town, and a short way E of the priory churchyard, on a corner site; Chepstow Road is the continuation of Four Ash Street.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
Early origin suggested by deep battered gable end to right. Refurbished early - mid C19. An inn on the E town boundary serving travellers between Usk and Chepstow  

Exterior
Small inn. Built of stone rubble rendered with roughcast; slate roof with overhanging boarded eaves and tall roughcast corniced end stacks. Single storey and attic. Symmetrical frontage: a full-height central gabled projecting bay with full dormer; ground floor windows either side of pointed-arched doorway with recessed door. C20 casement windows. Rear elevation shows a lower cross wing incorporated into a parallel higher and later cross wing. Two small first floor casements with shallow segmental arched heads to side.  

Interior
Interior now a single room, former divisions removed. C19 fireplace to right, dado rail and boarding.  

Reason for designation
An inn of early origins which has retained its character.  

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