Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
20143
Building Number
165
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/07/1998
Date of Amendment
31/03/2000
Name of Property
Wildings
Address
165 Commercial Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Stow Hill
Town
Locality
Newport
Easting
331100
Northing
188024
Street Side
W
Location
Almost opposite junction with Austin Friars.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built as department store circa 1885, replacing an inn, the Ship & Pilot; part of "London House" of Evans & Allen; 2 similar buildings to R (demolished after fire circa 1964) were formerly also part of the store. The store has been occcupied by Wildings since 1931.
Exterior
Four storey, five window department store building in free Renaissance style. Bathstone ashlar, yellow brick chimneys, roof in slate substitute. Five window front articulated by pilaster strips. Cornice with Doric frieze of triglyphs and paterae breaks forward beneath central attic dormer of 2 round-headed windows; pavilion roof covered in lead, iron railings to front. Second and third floors have camber-headed windows with original T-bar casement glazing. At first floor level large 5-light display window with dentil cornice above. On ground floor, mid C20 double-fronted shopfront and deep canopy. Large C20 extensions to rear.
Interior
The interior has been largely modernised.
Reason for designation
Listed for Victorian department store exterior and for group value with adjacent listed 164 Commercial Street.
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