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
3012
Building Number
13
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/05/1980
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
13 Commercial Street
Address
13 Commercial Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Stow Hill
Town
Locality
Easting
331106
Northing
188098
Street Side
E
Location
On corner with Corn Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
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
French Gothic style. Grey stone (in shallow courses), painted stone dressings, steeply pitched slate roofs with bracketed eaves. Modern shopfront to ground floor. Three storeys plus attic. Steep pavilion roof with stone dormer with 2 Gothic windows; on second floor, 4 windows with Gothic heads; on first floor, oriel window with Gothic lights. First bay in Corn Street is repetition of front; then lower section in same style with 3 large dormers in attic, 7 windows to second floor, four to first floor.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as part of large Victorian commercial development on Newport's main commercial street.
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