Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
46 Commercial Street
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
- 51.58525, -2.99414
- Cadw reference
- 23110
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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
About 60m S of junction with Charles Street.
History
Circa 1900; perhaps by Morgan & Hodge, architects, who built the similar 144 Commercial Street opposite.
Exterior
Dutch Renaissance style. Three storeys plus attic; red brick with bathstone dressings. Gable has segmental pediment enclosing bathstone arch; broad oriel window on bracket. Outer bays have unusual cranked 2-storey oriels with stone half domes, and 2 narrow sash windows to each floor. On second floor, between oriels, 2 sash windows; on first floor, central bow window of 2 lights. Second floor windows with bathstone architraves; first floor windows with blocking and entablature with frieze.
Reason for designation
Well-designed building in Dutch Renaissance style on Newport's main commercial street.
Nearby in the register
- Halfords (Nos.142-143)Commercialunder 1 mi
- 144 Commercial StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Lloyds TSBCommercialunder 1 mi
- Next (152-153)Commercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.