Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
2159
Building Number
21
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/04/1974
Date of Amendment
30/04/2004
Name of Property
No.21 New Market Street, and attached iron railings
Address
21 New Market Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Usk
Town
Locality
Easting
337562
Northing
200648
Street Side
E
Location
Roughly in the centre of the street, set back behind a shallow front garden with high hedge.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A Georgian frontage to an earlier, probably C16, building.
Exterior
House with Georgian frontage attached at right. Roughcast-rendered and painted; slate roof well set back behind a parapet which has narrow stone coping and raised verges; small rendered part-external end stack at left. Two storeys. Three- window range of 12-pane sashes in reveals, the centre blind. Doorway at right with shallow bracketed hood and recessed panelled part-glazed door. Plinth. Lower single storey and loft wing at left with cobbled forecourt and boarded double doors. Side wall with spikes extends from corner to join low wide wall across frontage with railings with fleur-de-lys and urn finials, part-embedded in hedge; scrolled lamp-arch to entrance at right.
Interior
Interior reported to retain early fireplace with stone lintel.
Reason for designation
Listed as a house of early origin with Georgian frontage. Group value with other listed buildings in New Market Street.
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