Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
82723
Building Number
2
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/04/2004
Date of Amendment
30/04/2004
Name of Property
,2,Castle Parade,Usk,Usk,,
Address
2 Castle Parade
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Usk
Town
Usk
Locality
Usk
Easting
337690
Northing
200916
Street Side
S
Location
Adjacent to the bank on the corner of Maryport Street, by the main town crossroads.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
c 1900.
Exterior
Pair of late Victorian shops with accommodation above, attached at each side. Of red and yellow brick; slate roof with twin gables with decorative applied timbering and apex finials, resting on deeply overhanging bracketed boarded eaves; similar brick corniced stacks. Yellow brick quoins, window surrounds, eaves and billet-moulded string course. Three storeys. Each shop has a single window range of cross-framed glazing with decorative squared glazing to upper lights, plain below: tripartite to top floor, canted bay to first floor. Paired plate glass shopfronts with deep fascia with side panels enriched with incised patterns; deep angled sills to the windows and side glazed doorways; plinth.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as part of the late Victorian business development of the town, retaining strong character, in a dominating position.
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