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
82755
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/04/2004
Date of Amendment
30/04/2004
Name of Property
Barclays Bank
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Usk
Town
Usk
Locality
Usk
Easting
337681
Northing
200911
Street Side
S
Location
A corner site with a similar elevation to each street and corner entrance; at the crossroads in the centre of the town and facing The Three Salmons Hotel.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Later C19. Originally James Parker's food-store. Up to 1857 Maryport Street was known as Middle Street.
Exterior
Large late Victorian business premises with classicizing detail. Of red brick with black and white-painted rendered and stone dressings, rendered ground floor and shallow-pitched slate roof with overhanging boarded eaves. Three storeys, 5 bays; designed for its corner site with entrance across the angle, the 3rd bay. Asymmetrical design and a variety of features, paired and plain pilasters, quoins, single paired and triple windows, some round-headed, some square headed, some with keystones, backets, stone surrounds, imposts, hoodmoulds, some plain. Two- pane sash windows to the upper floors; larger modern replacement windows to ground floor. Each elevation has a shallow pediment over its main bay: Castle Parade elevation has a triple window on top two floors, Venetian style to first floor; Maryport Street elevation has two widely spaced windows. Adjacent and in each case to left a bay without pediment: paired windows to Maryport Street, triple to Castle Parade. Single narrow windows to the curved corner, the middle bay with round-arched entrance.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a Victorian commercial building of an interesting design and in a dominant position in the town. Group Value.
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