Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Halifax
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
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
- 51.58666, -2.99513
- Cadw reference
- 23108
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
On S corner with Austin Friars.
History
Circa 1890. Former Metropolitan Bank.
Exterior
Four storey corner block, bathstone with some Pennant stone; Portland stone ground floor. Corner bay of 3 windows with lead steeple with small windows. To Austin Friars, second and third floors have 7 windows; third floor central window with pediment and balcony; first floor has central oriel window. Similar treatment to four window Commercial Street elevation, with pedimental gable over central bays.
On ground floor, later Portland stone front in simple Classical style; deep cornice, alternating paired and single Tuscan half-columns.
Reason for designation
High quality bank building on important corner site.
Nearby in the register
- Woolwich Building SocietyCommercialunder 1 mi
- 157-160 (Consecutive)Commercialunder 1 mi
- River IslandCommercialunder 1 mi
- WildingsCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.