Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
2140
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/04/1974
Date of Amendment
30/04/2004
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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