Former West Usk Lighthouse

The Former West Usk Lighthouse is a tapering, white-painted, rendered stone drum tower built with a two-storey accommodation block surrounding a taller central tower that once held the lantern. The entrance door is located on the landward side, flanked by windows, and there are seven additional windows on each floor, all set back in architraves with shallow triangular heads. A moulded cornice runs along the parapet of the flat roof. The taller central tower projects above this roofline and contains a service room with mullioned and transomed windows featuring raked back upper lights. This tower was originally topped with the lantern, which had lattice glazing and a conical roof with a ball finial and weather vane, but it was removed in 1922.

Inside, the building is arranged as a series of wedge-shaped rooms around the central tower, which is occupied by a spiral stone staircase. It is believed that the structure initially comprised two symmetrical dwellings, each accessed from a common entrance hall, with private staircases on either side; however, these have not survived. The original layout of the rooms has mostly been preserved, although access to and between them has changed. The upper rooms feature fire-proof ceilings with brick arches supported by cast-iron beams. There is a cistern at the base of the staircase that was originally supplied with water drained from the roof.