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
22335
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/05/1980
Date of Amendment
14/09/1999
Name of Property
No. 12 Gold Tops
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Allt-yr-Yn
Town
Locality
Gold Tops
Easting
330448
Northing
188350
Street Side
S
Location
Prominently located on the S side of Fields Road, approximately 15 metres E from the junction with Godfrey Road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Dated 1856. The architect was probably R. G. Thomas of Newport, who had prepared plans for Gothic and Italianate villas at Gold Tops in 1855. No. 11 forms a pair with No. 12: unusually, both houses are not matching, with the entrance fronts and gardens facing different directions (No. 11 faces S, No. 12 faces E). Both houses formerly listed as No. 11.
Exterior
Exuberant Tudor style. Complex stuccoed elevations of two storeys plus dormers; raised quoins also to windows. Steep slate roofs with bands of fishscale patterning. Elaborately carved bargeboards of various patterns; also to dormers. Tall yellow brick chimneys on plinths, with diagonal shafts. W front has two ridge chimneys to taller middle section, the L. with six shafts, r. with two. S front has stack to ridge r. of porch; five shafts. E front with three-shaft chimney to r. gable of taller section, plain ridge stack to lower section. Windows generally are small-paned sashes with centre mullions. S front has advanced gable to right, belonging to No. 12. Canted bay window with sash above, attic roundel containing quatrefoil. The three left bays form entrance front of No. 11, which has two-storey gabled porch to centre. Four-centred doorway with moulded surround and hoodmould; datestone above, sash window above. Ground floor canted bay window to l. with battlements, large paned sashes. Sash window above with steep dormer gable. To the r. of porch, sashes to ground floor and first floor, the latter breaking the eaves, with gabled dormer above; small paned sash. W elevation (No. 11) forms into three sections. Right bay is gabled with a sash window to both floors, and small attic sash above. Centre bay has higher roofline and two-storey ashlar bay window with crenellations; three-light mullioned windows with sashes. Left section, remodelled as office premises, is lower with gable facing Fields Road narrowed to centre with mullioned window over open porch.
E front (No. 12) at right angles to Fields Road consists of two sections. Three-bay left part is taller, with single storey deeply gabled porch to centre, the pointed door facing S with a gable above. Canted bay window to r. Sashes to first floor, the centre window with dormer gable: steeply gabled attic dormers each side, sharing main ridge-line. Three bay slightly lower section to r. with sashes to ground floor, and large-paned canted bay window to first floor set in angle with taller block. N elevation consists of the two gable ends of each house, with a narrow service court between, closed off by a rubble wall with arched doorway through.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey (May 1999)
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine mid C19 Tudor-style suburban pair of villas retaining much of their original character.
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