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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
- 51.58595, -2.99528
- Cadw reference
- 23113
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 corner with McCarthy’s Court.
History
By Habershon & Faulkner, architects, of Newport and London.
Exterior
Three storeys plus attic. Red brick with painted bathstone dressings. To R (north) corner turret (dome lost) which has mullion and transom windows with sash glazing. Facing Commercial Street, three bays; first and second each have attic dormer (pediments lost) with flanking scrolls; paired windows. On second floor, large round windows with relief decoration in spandrels, and balustrades over first floor oriel window. Third bays have mullion and transom windows. Above modern shopfront, stone banding and balustrade. Very simple elevation to lane to R.
Reason for designation
Late Victorian commercial development in Conservation Area.
Nearby in the register
- 157-160 (Consecutive)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Lloyds TSBCommercialunder 1 mi
- 144 Commercial StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- HalifaxCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.