Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pavilion and attached Conservatories
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 11 July 1996
- Locality
- Belle Vue Park
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.57909, -3.00281
- Cadw reference
- 16955
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
About 100m E of park entrance at junction of Waterloo Road and Stow Park Road.
History
Built 1910, by Thomas Mawson, landscape architect, also responsible for design of the park. Built from stone quarried in the construction of the park; the work was commissioned as unemployment relief.
Exterior
Grey-brown stone, red terracotta dressings and string courses, red tiled roof. Dutch C17 style. Pavilion W entrance has shaped gable with steep pediment (ball finial), 2 round-headed windows below separated by pilaster. Two-storey terracotta pilasters support frieze with acanthus scroll (ball finials to ends). Large 5-light round-headed first floor window over closed balustrade with urn balusters. Round-headed entrance doorway flanked by terracotta artisan mannerist style pilasters supporting steep pediment with heraldic shield. At first floor level, outer bays have corner pilasters.
East front facing terrace similar but instead of first floor window has open loggia behind which is 4-light mullioned and transomed window with stained glass; simple square-headed entrance doorway.
To each side of the pavilion is a conservatory. Stone and terracotta plinth. Upper parts (heavily restored) in wood and glass. Advanced central gabled bays to front and rear (doorways to front), hipped glazed roofs above which are ventilators with smaller hipped roofs. Beyond conservatories, to each end, public convenience in matching materials.
Reason for designation
Listed as prominent building in Belle Vue Park conservation area which is a Grade II entry in Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
Group value with adjacent terracing.
Nearby in the register
- Terracing below Pavilion and ConservatoriesGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Rustic Tea HouseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Waterloo Road Gatepiers & Gates to Belle Vue ParkGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- 1-6 Burton HomesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.