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
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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