Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
46-47 High 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
- 51.58896, -2.99740
- Cadw reference
- 23121
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
Almost opposite Market Street.
History
1894-1895, by Habershon & Fawckner, architects, of Newport and London. Part of a large scale redevelopment of upper High Street in 1890s, including Newport Arcade.
Exterior
Pair of shops with offices above. French Renaissance style. Bathstone with slate mansard roof. Three storeys plus attic. Stone attic dormer to each enclosing single window. On second floor, large arched window to each; keystone; medallions in spandrels. On first floor, each has shallow splayed window, with balustrade over; balustading also between bay windows, above modern shop fronts to ground floors.
Reason for designation
Part of ambitious large scale redevelopment of upper High Street in 1890s, group value with Newport Arcade.
Nearby in the register
- Newport ArcadeCommercialunder 1 mi
- 41-43 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Ye Olde Murenger House PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- Former Tredegar Arms Hotel and Lloyd's Bank (Yates's)Commercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.