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
82748
Building Number
59
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/04/2004
Date of Amendment
30/04/2004
Name of Property
59 Bridge Street
Address
59 Bridge Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Usk
Town
Usk
Locality
Usk
Easting
337516
Northing
200765
Street Side
S
Location
Part of the westernmost range on the S side of Bridge Street, adjacent to the listed Bank.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Late Victorian.
Exterior
Tall late Victorian business premises with classicizing detail. Attached at each side, projecting from Bank at left. Roughcast rendered with stucco dressings contrastingly painted; slate roof with tall decoratively rendered corniced stack. Three storeys. Elaborate raised dressings throughout: wide scored pilastered quoins to first floor; paired to second with bracket capitals to overhanging fully bracketed pediment; moulded string-courses, window surrounds with keystones, eared architraves, hoodmoulds and stops and bracketed sills. Three storeys to the main projecting bay with triple round-arched lights to attic and double segmental-arched first floor sashes; narrow side windows to returns. Narrower 3-storey bay set back to right and a lower single storey bay at end right with steep pitched slate roof. Ground floor renewed double shopfront.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-designed late Victorian business premises. Group value with other listed buildings in Bridge Street.
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