Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Queen's Hotel
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Stow Hill, Newport, designated on 2 May 1980.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 2 May 1980
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58763, -2.99860
- Cadw reference
- 2999
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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
On prominent site on corner of Bridge Street and Baneswell Road.
History
Mid C19 hotel.
Exterior
Italianate stucco; bracketed cornice, string courses. Three window entrance block faces E. Above cornice, parapet with panel with segmental pediment with pinnacle, inscription to panel "Queen’s Hotel". Four-pane sash windows to top floor in simplified architraves; on first floor, central French window with bracketed pediment; outer windows with bracketed cornices. On ground floor, central balustraded porch, on Tuscan columns; round-arched doorway with overlight. To each side of porch, tripartite sash window. Bridge Street elevation has 5 windows to top floor, 4-pane sashes in architraves with keystones; on first floor roughly central pair of windows with bracketed cornices, 2 similar single windows to each side; on ground floor, 3 windows, door, further window and door.
Elevation to Baneswell road in similar style. Beyond this, slightly stepped up, further 4 window block in matching style.
Reason for designation
Well-preserved Victorian hotel on important corner site. Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 20 Bridge StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Tredegar ChambersCommercialunder 1 mi
- Lamb PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- 24 Bridge StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.