Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Nos 7-12 Victoria Place, including area railings
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 2 January 1974
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58436, -2.99703
- Cadw reference
- 3047
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
Forms the SW side of Victoria Place, which runs S from Stow Hill.
History
1844. Built by Rennie Logan, constructors of Town Dock. The land was given by William Townshend to provide access to Stow Hill from the SW.
Exterior
Three storey terrace; stucco with channelled ground floor. Six 2-window houses; 9-pane sash windows to top floors, 12-pane windows to first floors with bracketed hoods and iron-fronted balcony on iron brackets in front of both windows. On ground floor to L, each house has steps up to doorway with Ionic doorcase; panelled door; to R, 12-pane sash window. Iron railings to basement forecourts and steps.
Reason for designation
Impressive early C19 terrace. Group value with opposite side of Victoria Place.
Nearby in the register
- Nos 1-6 Victoria Place, including area railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 13 Hill StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 13 Victoria PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 14 Victoria Place, including attached railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.