Former West Usk Lighthouse

A tapering white painted rendered stone drum tower consisting of a 2 storeyed accommodation block enclosing a higher central tower which formerly carried the lantern. Entrance door on landward side, with flanking windows, and 7 further windows on each floor, all recessed in architraves with shallow triangular heads. Moulded cornice to parapet of flat roof. Projection of taller central tower above this roofline contains service room with mullioned and transomed windows with raked back upper lights, and was formerly surmounted by the lantern: remains of inner walkway and cast-iron railings mounted on a moulded cornice survive. Lantern had lattice glazing and a conical roof surmounted by ball finial and weather vane, but was removed in 1922.

Divided as a series of wedge shaped rooms around the central tower, which is occupied by a spiral stone staircase, the building is thought to have comprised two symmetrical dwellings originally, each accessed from a common entrance hall, and with their own private staircases at either side (the main staircase only providing access to the lantern), though these have not survived. The original layout of rooms has been largely retained, although access to and between them has been altered. Upper rooms have fire-proof ceilings, with brick arches sprung between cast-iron beams. Cistern at base of staircase was originally fed by water drained from the roof