Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
34&35 High Street
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
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
- 51.58820, -2.99705
- Cadw reference
- 3024
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
Immediately to N of National Westminster Bank.
History
1887, by Habershon & Fawckner, architects, of Newport and London.
Exterior
Four storeys plus attic. Free Renaissance style. Bathstone and Pennant stone; sash glazing. Steep pavilion roof with pair of windows in pedimented dormer; iron crested parapet. Modern ground floor shop front. Three upper storeys articulated into 3 bays by pilasters and varied entablatures. Top floor has four rectangular windows to central bay flanked by 3 in outer bays. Second floor has three camber-headed windows in central bay flanked by 2 in outer bays. Similar arrangement to first floor where glazing has been simplified.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with adjacent National Westminster Bank.
Nearby in the register
- National Westminster Bank (including Nos.2 & 4 Cambrian Road)Commercialunder 1 mi
- 31, 32, 33 High Street, including 2a & 2-4 Skinner StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Pedestal & Statue of Sir Charles MorganCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- 27-30 High Street (Consecutive and including 27a)Commercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.