The Lawns, Usk, Monmouthshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.701 / 51°42'3"N

Longitude: -2.9056 / 2°54'20"W

OS Eastings: 337509

OS Northings: 200639

OS Grid: SO375006

Mapcode National: GBR J9.43TF

Mapcode Global: VH79V.LH8V

Plus Code: 9C3VP32V+CP

Entry Name: The Lawns

Listing Date: 1 April 1974

Last Amended: 30 April 2004

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 2165

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300002165

Location: Set back from the street and building line in a large walled garden and reached by a drive.

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Usk

Community: Usk (Brynbuga)

Community: Usk

Built-Up Area: Usk

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

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History

Early C19. Built for the Addams Williams family. Thomas Addams-Williams a vicar of Usk in later C19. In the 1930s The Lawns Club. Converted to flats late C20. Former coach-house adjacent also converted to flats. Does not appear on map of 1800.

Exterior

Large later Georgian gentry house. Roughcast rendered and painted; hipped swept small-slate roof of shallow pitch with eaves cornice and tall and and narrow rendered lateral stacks, part external at front left. Three storeys. A 3-bay frontage, the centre, narrower, recessed. Sash windows in reveals with narrow glazing bars increase in length down frontage: 6-pane to top floor; 9-pane to first floor, 12-pane to ground floor, one to each bay. Modest central round-arched doorway with narrow reeded pilasters, recessed 6-panelled part-glazed door with panelled reveals and fanlight. Garden frontage to rear is more elaborate with raised moulded dressings: quoins, lintels and keystones, voussoirs, jambs and Gibbs surround to all the windows. Similar arrangement of sash windows to 3-bay frontage though the ground-floor windows are tripartite with lead dripmoulds either side of a round-arched doorway with recessed panelled door with wide fanlight with radial glazing and margin-lights.

Interior

Converted into 7 flats, but said to retain fine staircase..

Reasons for Listing

A large and impressive late classical town-centre house retaining much character.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Garden Wall at No.16 New Market Street (The Lawns)
Extending along the street frontage of The Lawns and joining with the former stables.
II Former Stable Wing at No.16 New Market Street (The Lawns)
Forming part of the road frontage of The Lawns property, integrated with the Garden Wall.
II NO.18 New Market Street, Gwent
Near the centre of the W side of the street, adjoining the garden and former stable of The Lawns.
II Clemendy Cottage
At the top of the street, near Bridge Street, just at the point where New Market Street opens out.
II Stables at Ynys Hafod, New Market Street, Gwent
Set between the half-timbered number 18 and the long range of Ynys Hafod.
II Merlin Cottage
At the top of the street, near Bridge Street, just at the point where New Market Street opens out.
II 19, New Market Street, Usk, Usk
Opposite The Lawns.
II 17, New Market Street, Usk, Usk
Opposite The Lawns.

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The Lawns

A Grade II Listed Building in Usk, Monmouthshire