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
82780
Building Number
11
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/04/1974
Date of Amendment
30/04/2004
Name of Property
Olde Malsters
Address
11 New Market Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Usk
Town
Usk
Locality
Usk
Easting
337535
Northing
200696
Street Side
E
Location
At the top wide part of the street, side elevation to passageway now leading to car-park at rear of Bridge Street, adjacent to Museum.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
The building consists of the cross wing and passage of a large late medieval house. The hall of the house is now No 9 New Market Street. The house retains front and rear Tudor-arched passage doorways, and a 3-arched stone screen with two Tudor-arched doorways, and a possibly slightly earlier doorway with 3-centred head. The rear ground floor room (now kitchen) has remains of cruck trusses. The present roof trusses are of 2 periods with, to rear, mortise-and-tenon joints, and towards front, lapped and notched joints.
Exterior
Townhouse of medieval origin, attached at one side to No.9. Of stone part scored-stucco rendered, part painted, hipped slate roof with tall brick corniced lateral stack, further stack at rear gable end. Two storeys and attic. Frontage to New Market Street has a surviving chamfered Tudor-arched stone doorway with slate hood. Projecting gable end has single range of 12-pane horned sashes in reveals. Side elevation onto passage shows much sign of alteration and adaptation. Under eaves near front is an extended two-light mullioned window with early origin, 2 arched lights in a rectangular frame with spandrels, set in a narrow corbelled-out bay adjacent to lateral external stack. Beyond stack the wall is recessed, a brick blocking, and then breaks forward. At left at head height a small medieval pointed light with pierced hole for tracery cut into a single stone block. Under eaves is a rectangular similarly early stone window with vestigial moulding; 2 other later upper wood casements and a wide C20 ground floor window casement window. Stepped back to rear is a wing with an upper casement window with very deep hoodmould and stops. Rear gable end has blocked stair window to interior stone stair.
Interior
The house retains front and rear Tudor-arched passage doorways, and a 3-arched stone screen with two Tudor-arched doorways, and a doorway with 3-centred head. The rear ground floor room (now kitchen) has remains of cruck trusses, and a stone fireplace with mason-mitred lintel. A stone stair (visible only in upper storeys) runs up to attic level (present stairs modern). The front room has a fine stone fireplace with moulded surround, and a blocked round-headed window. The present roof trusses are, to rear, mortise-and-tenon joints, and towards front, lapped and notched joints.
Reason for designation
Graded II* as an especially important house in Usk with visible early origins. Group value with other listed buildings in New Market Street.
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