Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Community Education Centre, including attached railings & Gates
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 31 March 2000
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58526, -2.99624
- Cadw reference
- 23105
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 40 m from junction with Stow Hill.
History
Circa 1900; former School of Art.
Exterior
Free Renaissance style. Red brick with brick pilasters and friezes; red sandstone dressings; slate roofs. Two storeys plus attic over basement. Ground slopes steeply to L. Three bays with gables to end bays, and hipped dormer to centre. On first floor, in L bay, tripartite mullion and transom window has central arched light which breaks up into gable; to R, central and R bays each have two-light mullion and transom window with elliptical head. On ground floor, similar window in L bay, pair of these in central bay, and to R, round-arched doorway with shallow hood corbelled out on relief corbels. Wrought -iron gates; double-leaf panelled and glazed doors with stained glass overlight. To L, where ground falls, round-headed doorway to basement. To L again, attached railings and gates.
Interior
Entrance hall with grand staircase with stone balusters.
Reason for designation
Good late C19 educational building.
Nearby in the register
- 37 Stow HillDomesticunder 1 mi
- 35 Stow HillDomesticunder 1 mi
- 31 Stow Hill, including forecourt walls, gatepiers, and railings.Domesticunder 1 mi
- St Woolos County Primary School, including wall and railingsEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.