Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
2999
Building Number
19
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/05/1980
Date of Amendment
31/03/2000
Name of Property
Queen's Hotel
Address
19 Bridge Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Stow Hill
Town
Locality
Easting
330913
Northing
188114
Street Side
S
Location
On prominent site on corner of Bridge Street and Baneswell Road.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Mid C19 hotel.
Exterior
Italianate stucco; bracketed cornice, string courses. Three window entrance block faces E. Above cornice, parapet with panel with segmental pediment with pinnacle, inscription to panel "Queen’s Hotel". Four-pane sash windows to top floor in simplified architraves; on first floor, central French window with bracketed pediment; outer windows with bracketed cornices. On ground floor, central balustraded porch, on Tuscan columns; round-arched doorway with overlight. To each side of porch, tripartite sash window. Bridge Street elevation has 5 windows to top floor, 4-pane sashes in architraves with keystones; on first floor roughly central pair of windows with bracketed cornices, 2 similar single windows to each side; on ground floor, 3 windows, door, further window and door.
Elevation to Baneswell road in similar style. Beyond this, slightly stepped up, further 4 window block in matching style.
Interior
Reason for designation
Well-preserved Victorian hotel on important corner site. Group value.
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