Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Electricity Transformer at SW end of Graham Street
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 21 April 1981
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58379, -3.00222
- Cadw reference
- 3061
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
At top end (SW) of street.
History
Following the Newport (Monmouthshire) Electric Lighting Order 1891, the corporation built Newport’s first power station at 21 Llanarth Street. The station supplied power at 2000 Volts AC, which had to be reduced to 200 Volts for household use at transformers such as this, and a similar listed transformer at Park Square.
Exterior
Cast iron cylindrical casing has low conical cap bearing iron lamp standard with modern lamp. Rim of cap has beaded decoration; relief decoration beneath rim on body of transformer which is divided into panels by horizontal ribs, and vertical ribs which bear hinges for access doors.
Reason for designation
Extremely rare survival from early period of electricity supply industry.
Nearby in the register
- 55 York PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 7 & 8 Clifton PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Clifton PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Drinking Fountain to W of St Woolos' CathedralGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.