Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Electricity Transformer at Park Square
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Newport, Stow Hill, designated on 21 April 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 21 April 1981
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58342, -2.99602
- Cadw reference
- 3062
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 Park Square.
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 Graham Street.
Exterior
Cast iron cylindrical casing has low conical cap bearing iron lamp standard without 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
- 11 Park SquareDomesticunder 1 mi
- 9 &10 Park SquareDomesticunder 1 mi
- Victoria Road United Reformed ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 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.