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20 Bridge Street

Stow Hill, Newport, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Stow Hill, Newport, designated on 2 May 1980.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of 20 Bridge Street, Stow Hill, Newport, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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
51.58757, -2.99916
Cadw reference
3000

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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Cadw's description

Location

To R (W) of Queen's Hotel.

History

Circa 1870.

Exterior

Three storey, 5 window Italianate block; stucco with rusticated quoins and channelled ground floor. Bracketed cornice; 5 camber-headed windows to second floor. First floor windows have bracketed pediments, central window has engaged columns. On ground floor, round-arched openings with keystones breaking up into entablature with dentil cornice; recessed central entrance flanked by paired pilasters; paired pilasters to ends.

Reason for designation

Well-preserved building in Italianate style; group value with adjacent Hotel.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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