Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
6 New Street
Neath, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Neath, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 5 January 1989.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 5 January 1989
- Community
- Neath
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66380, -3.80470
- Cadw reference
- 11803
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 247 Swansea (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the street line at the corner with Church Place and backing on to St Thomas’ churchyard.
Exterior
Early C19 Georgian, 3 storey, colourwashed brick. Three window front to New Street, one to splayed corner, 4 to Church Place. Gently pitched slate roofs, hipped to corner, lead ridge; brick stacks.
Shallow 6 pane sash windows to second floor, stone sills, plain reveals, blocked to extreme left on Church Place. Plaster voussoirs to No.7. Twelve pane sashes to first floor of No.6, plaster voussoirs and rusticated architraves, over early C20 shop front. Six small panes to upper sashes only on No.7 first floor windows. Rusticated plaster voussoirs to Church Place, missing to splayed corner and New Street elevations. One dummy window with false sashes third from left to Church Place.
Late shopfront flanks doorway set into splayed corner.
Much altered ground floor to Church Place. Asymmetrical gabled elevations to churchyard at rear. Single 12 pane sash to first floor.
Reason for designation
Group value with Town Hall opposite and other listed items in Church Place.
Nearby in the register
- 7 New StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Old Town HallCivilunder 1 mi
- Old Town Church of St ThomasReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gates, Gatepiers & Churchyard Wall of St Thomas' ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.