Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
120 Lower Dock Street
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 26 January 1999
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58303, -2.98975
- Cadw reference
- 21288
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 75m N of junction with George Street.
History
Circa 1900 commercial premises.
Exterior
Commercial premises in pressed red brick. Northern European Renaissance style; glazing modernised but respecting moulded tracery in window heads. Main part of elevation has 3 bays with central stepped gable; round-headed window. Beneath this, 3 similar windows above camber-arched vehicular entrance with doors with diagonal boarding. Two windows to each side at first floor level; at ground floor level, broad single windows with tracery heads. To L, 3 storey tower with hipped roof; paired
round-arched widows to first and second floors; on ground floor, similar window to L, and doorway with stone surround set within trefoil head.
Reason for designation
Unusual commercial building at end of building line. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Liscombe ManufacturingCommercialunder 1 mi
- Old Custom House (Celtic Displays)Maritimeunder 1 mi
- 77 Lower Dock StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 124&124aCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.