Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
174 Commercial Road
Pillgwenlly, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 2 May 1980
- Locality
- Pillgwenlly
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Pillgwenlly
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58008, -2.99091
- Cadw reference
- 3008
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
Located on the W side of Commercial Road on the corner with Alma Street.
Exterior
Small, mid C19, two storey house. Lined-out stuccoed elevations beneath a hipped, slated roof. Raised doorway on right hand side retaining original doorcase with reeded architrave and paterae. Recessed three-panelled door beneath plain semi-circular fanlight. Two four-pane sash windows with margin panes to first floor, matching sash to ground floor. Lower gabled range to rear on Alma Street frontage with gable brick stack and modern fenestration.
Reason for designation
Listed as an example of a small late Georgian style house illustrating a type now increasingly rare in Newport.
Nearby in the register
- 181 Commercial RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 182 Commercial RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 183 Commercial RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cattle Market (S range)Commercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.