Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Highbury Chambers
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
- 51.58830, -2.99612
- Cadw reference
- 23147
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
Forms centre of N side of Skinner Street.
History
Dated 1892.
Exterior
Commercial block of offices above shops. Red brick with yellow brick pilasters and some bathstone dressings. Four storeys. Five bays in all; central narrow bay framed by pilasters has single camber-headed window to each floor; at parapet level, inscription "Highbury Chambers", and under pediment, date "1892"; at ground floor level, stone doorcase with segmental pediment. To each side of centre, top floor has large semi-circular window; on 1st and 2nd floors. 2-storey splayed oriel window. Outer bays have 3 camber-headed windows to 2nd and 3rd floors; on first floor, splayed oriel window. Ground floor shopfronts modernised.
Reason for designation
Well-preserved late Victorian commercial development.
Nearby in the register
- 31, 32, 33 High Street, including 2a & 2-4 Skinner StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 27-30 High Street (Consecutive and including 27a)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Nos 1-8 (Consecutive)Commercialunder 1 mi
- 34&35 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.