Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
13 Commercial Street
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 2 May 1980
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58751, -2.99581
- Cadw reference
- 3012
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
On corner with Corn Street.
History
By A Swash, architect, 1892-94. The development originally consisted of the whole block (Nos 2-13 consecutive), between Skinner Street and Corn Street, but Nos 9-12 were rebuilt in the 1930s, leaving the end No 13 unaltered.
Exterior
French Gothic style. Grey stone (in shallow courses), painted stone dressings, steeply pitched slate roofs with bracketed eaves. Modern shopfront to ground floor. Three storeys plus attic. Steep pavilion roof with stone dormer with 2 Gothic windows; on second floor, 4 windows with Gothic heads; on first floor, oriel window with Gothic lights. First bay in Corn Street is repetition of front; then lower section in same style with 3 large dormers in attic, 7 windows to second floor, four to first floor.
Reason for designation
Included as part of large Victorian commercial development on Newport's main commercial street.
Nearby in the register
- Barclay's BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- Westgate Chambers/Westgate Buildings (Nos.170-173 Consecutive)Commercialunder 1 mi
- 174 Commercial StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Letter Box outside Westgate HotelCommunicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.