Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Woolwich Building Society
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Stow Hill, Newport, designated on 31 March 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 31 March 2000
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58686, -2.99526
- Cadw reference
- 23107
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
On N corner with Austin Friars.
History
1892, by E A Lansdowne. Formerly Liberal Club.
Exterior
French Renaissance style. Steeply pitched slate roof, bathstone elevations with dentil cornice, first floor windows with small pediments; pale stone ground floor. Two pedimented dormers to Commercial Street. Dome over corner. Three pedimented dormers to Austin Friars. Three windows to Commercial Street; on ground floor, doorway to L, and 2 windows. Curving corner bay. To Austin Friars, window, blank bay (formerly chimney), 2 windows, then paired windows in end bay with pavilion roof. On ground floor, 2 windows to corner, 4 windows to Austin Friars, then doorway with scrolled brackets to hood.
Reason for designation
High quality bank building on important corner site.
Nearby in the register
- HalifaxCommercialunder 1 mi
- River IslandCommercialunder 1 mi
- WildingsCommercialunder 1 mi
- 157-160 (Consecutive)Commercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.