Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
25 Stow Hill
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Stow Hill, Newport, designated on 7 July 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 7 July 1999
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58617, -2.99673
- Cadw reference
- 21961
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)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1906 · 249 Newport (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the N (lower) end of a row of houses on the E side of Stow Hill, running S from site of former school.
Exterior
House in Italianate style. Stucco with channelled ground floor and pilaster strips, bracketed eaves. Three storeys, two windows. Second floor windows with stucco architraves; first floor windows with bracketed pediments; upper floor windows have hornless sash windows with marginal glazing bars. On ground floor, to L, splayed bay window (woodwork simplified) with casement glazing; to R, doorway with bracketed cornice, rectangular overlight, C19 door with 2 long panels. Retains gatepiers with heavy classicising capstones.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of a group of well-preserved Italianate middle-class houses on what was once one of Newport's most prestigious residential streets. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- 27 Stow HillDefenceunder 1 mi
- 29 Stow HillDomesticunder 1 mi
- 31 Stow Hill, including forecourt walls, gatepiers, and railings.Domesticunder 1 mi
- 35 Stow HillDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.