Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
9 &10 Park Square
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
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 2 May 1980
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58325, -2.99637
- Cadw reference
- 3031
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
At W end of Square, to S of No 11.
History
Pair of earlier C19 houses; probably 1840s; No 10 with altered windows from c1920.
Exterior
Pair of houses. Two storeys and attic; Jacobethan style. Rendered with labels over most windows; slate roofs, elaborately cusped bargeboards; groups of octagonal chimneys. Pair of gables faces E; each with stepped attic window, 12-pane sash to first floor of No 9, and on ground floor, shallow splayed bay window with Gothic glazing, which now continues upwards at No 10. Returns to L (No 9) and R (No 10) also gabled with narrow attic window; two windows to first floor; porch in angle with rear cross wing (gabled to ends).
Reason for designation
Well-preserved early C19 pair in what was once Newport's prime residential Square. Group value with No 11 to N.
Nearby in the register
- 11 Park SquareDomesticunder 1 mi
- Electricity Transformer at Park SquareIndustrialunder 1 mi
- KingshillReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 81 Stow HillDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.