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
3011
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/05/1980
Date of Amendment
31/03/2000
Name of Property
Nos 1-8 (Consecutive)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Stow Hill
Town
Locality
Easting
331074
Northing
188137
Street Side
E
Location
On corner with Skinner Street, opposite Westgate Hotel.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
By A Swash, architect, 1892-94. The development originally consisted of the whole block (Nos 2-13 consecutive), between Skinner Street and Corn Street, but Nos 9-12 were rebuilt in the 1930s, leaving the end No 13 unaltered.
Exterior
Large commercial development in French Gothic style. Grey stone (in shallow courses), painted stone dressings, steeply pitched slate roofs with bracketed eaves. Modern shopfronts to ground floors. Three storeys plus attic. End block (No2) has steep pavilion roof with stone dormer with 2 Gothic windows; on second floor, 4 windows with Gothic heads; on first floor, broad oriel window with Gothic lights, 2 to front. Rounded corner to L has Gothic window to first and second floors; 4 window L return with dormer (as front) set across eaves; elevation continues down Skinner Street for further 4 windows, but in yellow brick
Nos. 3 to 6 (consecutive) each have Gothic oriel window to first floor, and attic dormer, on second floors, Nos. 3 and 5 have 3 windows, and 4 and 6 have 4 windows. Nos. 7 and 8 (formerly central block) have pair of steep pavilion roofs with iron cresting, each roof has Gothic dormer with 2-light Geometrical tracery; on second floor, 8 windows with T-glazing; on first floor, broad oriel window with 6 Gothic lights to front.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for its strong High Victorian presence on Newport's main commercial street.
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