Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
157-160 (Consecutive)
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
- 51.58646, -2.99554
- Cadw reference
- 23114
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
About 80m N of junction with Charles Street.
History
Circa 1890.
Exterior
Group of 4 shops. Northern Renaissance style. Three storeys plus attic in steep Mansard roof. Grey Pennant stone with bathstone dressings. Relief band of swags between first and second floors. Nos 158-160 each have very large pedimented dormers with strapwork relief, and scrolls to sides; each dormer encloses 2 sash windows; two sash windows to second floors; on first floors, oriel windows; to each side of second floor windows, roundel with relief head; to each side of oriel windows, vertical relief panel. No 157 formerly identical has first floor oriel simplified as flat window, retaining relief details, and the stone work has been painted.
Reason for designation
Nos 158-160 included as well-detailed Late Victorian commercial development in Conservation Area No 157 included for group value.
Nearby in the register
- HalifaxCommercialunder 1 mi
- River IslandCommercialunder 1 mi
- WildingsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Woolwich Building SocietyCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.