Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
144 Commercial Street
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
- 51.58535, -2.99472
- Cadw reference
- 23112
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 50m S of junction with Charles Street.
History
Bears date 1900; by Morgan & Hodge architects.
Exterior
Elaborate Dutch Renaissance style. Three storeys plus attic; red brick with bathstone dressings enriched by scrollwork, garlands, brackets. Gable has segmental pediment enclosing relief panel; 5-light window with central 3 lights articulated by end columns supporting cornice; sash glazing. Scroll balustrade over broad 2-storey oriel of 3 lights, central lights stressed by curved pediments enclosing cartouches; sash glazing. Outer bays have turrets in same style rising from first floor to attic level where they become polygonal louvres with copper domes. Modern shop front on ground floor.
Reason for designation
Flamboyant well-designed building in Dutch Renaissance style on Newport's main commercial street.
Nearby in the register
- Halfords (Nos.142-143)Commercialunder 1 mi
- 46 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.