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
23135
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/03/2000
Date of Amendment
31/03/2000
Name of Property
Upper Lodge at Belle Vue Park, including Attached Wall & Gatepiers
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Stow Hill
Town
Locality
Belle Vue Park
Easting
330719
Northing
187374
Street Side
S
Location
At N (Friar's Road) entrance to Belle Vue Park.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
1893-94, by T H Mawson (1861-1933), landscape architect, of Windermere. This lodge was for the use of the nursery foreman; porch altered 1914. The land for the park was given by Lord Tredegar in 1891. Mawson won the competition (despite submitting designs for the wrong site) and the park opened in 1894. Mawson designed the layout for the park, and virtually all the buildings including terraces and tea pavilion, lodges, bridges, walls and gatepiers. Mawson became a landscape architect and town planner of international importance with commissions throughout Britain, and also in Canada and Greece.
Exterior
Two storey lodge. Ground floor in rock-faced stone, upper floor half-timbered; modern tiled roof. Main block has gable facing N, 4-light casement window to first floor which is corbelled out over splayed bay window. Small window at NW angle. R elevation has large stone chimney, And small upper floor window. Left (E) elevation has lower cross wing with tile-hung gable; 4-light upper floor casement window. In angle between blocks, glazed porch with double leaf, part-glazed doors. To L, attached wall with gates and gatepiers; firstly stone wall, pier and iron railing; then taller piers with capstones and elaborate iron gates; then further section of iron railing, with pier to L.
Interior
Reason for designation
Integral part of well-preserved park by this important designer.
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