Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
2136
Building Number
57
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/04/1974
Date of Amendment
30/04/2004
Name of Property
National Westminster Bank
Address
57 Bridge Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Usk
Town
Usk
Locality
Usk
Easting
337527
Northing
200773
Street Side
Location
Part of the end terrace of the S range of Bridge Street before the bridge, set back from no. 59.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built 1848 by RH Thomas of Newport for the Monmouthshire and Glamorgan Bank. Probably formerly fronted with railings. Inhabited by Edward John Trelawny, friend of Byron and Shelley, who brought back cedar tree seeds from the cemetery in Italy where Shelley's ashes were buried, and planted the seeds in and around Usk.
Exterior
Bank in Classical style. Rendered and painted with shallow-pitched slate roof and tall and narrow rendered corniced end cross-ridge stack. Two storeys. Raised and staggered quoins, eaves band, eared architraves, shallow bracketed sills. A 3-window range of 6-pane sashes to first floor. Ground floor has shallow steps up to grand central porch with deep entablature with billet moulding supported by paired fluted columns with lotus-leaf capitals, rear pilasters; door with 3 horizontal panels. Paired plate glass windows with surrounds similar to above on either side of doorway. Plinth.
Interior
Reason for designation
Of special interest as an early purpose-built bank in Classical style, andretaining its character.
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