Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rustic Tea House
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 31 March 2000
- Locality
- Belle Vue Park
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.57887, -3.00310
- Cadw reference
- 23136
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 25m SW of main pavilion in Belle Vue Park.
History
The land for the park was given by Lord Tredegar in 1891. Mawson won the competition (despite submitting designs for the wrong site) and the park opened in 1894. Mawson designed the layout for the park, and virtually all the buildings including terraces and tea pavilion, lodges, bridges, walls and gatepiers. Mawson became a landscape architect and town planner of international importance with commissions throughout Britain, and also in Canada and Greece.
The "Rustic Tea House" was built around 1910 (cost £135) to provide additional space for serving teas in rainy weather.
Exterior
Wooden structure with hipped tiled roof supported on wooden pillars. Five bays by two of segmental arches with rails above rising to eaves. End bays, and 2 to NW, have diagonal lattice screens.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with adjacent listed Pavilion and Terraces.
Nearby in the register
- Pavilion and attached ConservatoriesGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Terracing below Pavilion and ConservatoriesGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Waterloo Road Gatepiers & Gates to Belle Vue ParkGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- 1-6 Burton HomesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.