Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
7-12 Burton Homes
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
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 March 2000
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58039, -3.00325
- Cadw reference
- 23118
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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
Near W end of Friars Road, set back behind gardens; immediately to R of 1-6.
History
One of 2 identical sets of 6 almshouses built in 1908.
Exterior
Single-storey block of almshouses in red-brown rock-faced stone with bathstone dressings; plain tiled roofs; brick chimneys; mullion and transom windows with small-pane casement glazing. To each end, set forward, block with paired half-timbered gables, and tiled hood over pair of splayed bay windows, inner elevations have lean-to porch with roof following roof line of gable; porches half-timbered and glazed. Between end blocks, 4 houses each consisting of central steeply-gabled half-timbered porch with mullion and transom window to each side.
Reason for designation
Well-preserved and designed example of unusual building type; group value with adjacent set of almshouses.
Nearby in the register
- 1-6 Burton HomesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pavilion and attached ConservatoriesGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Waterloo Road Gatepiers & Gates to Belle Vue ParkGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Upper Lodge at Belle Vue Park, including Attached Wall & GatepiersDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.