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
3028
Building Number
109
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/05/1980
Date of Amendment
31/01/1997
Name of Property
109 Lower Dock Street
Address
109 Lower Dock Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Pillgwenlly
Town
Newport
Locality
Pillgwenlly
Easting
331615
Northing
187494
Street Side
W
Location
Located on W side of Lower Dock Street on the corner of Ruperra Street.
Description
Broad Class
Institutional
Period
History
Mid C19 Masonic Hall.
Exterior
Three storeys with Italianate detailing, shallow roof set behind parapet. Curved corner bay with ground floor entrance. Doorway has pair of three panelled doors, set beneath glazed, arched fanlight. Flanking, fluted, Ionic columns. Above doorway is a tall, two storey, arched opening with keystone, carried on plain columns, with stiff leaf capitals. Square-headed, tall casement window, with Masonic compass device set within fanlight. Ground floor divided into bays, by heavy vermiculated and plain rusticated pilasters. Arch-headed, twelve-pane sashes set beneath moulded architraves with keystones. Bracketed stringcourse between ground and second floors with dentil moulding. First floor of Lower Dock Street is similar to ground floor. Ruperra Street frontage has tall, first floor, hall windows within projecting central bay with flanking heavy, rusticated pilasters and quoining. Above are a series of Masonic devices set within roundels. Continuous impost band beneath parapet carried on paired consoles. End bay of Ruperra Street elevation has three, arched, twelve-pane sashes on ground floor, set within moulded architraves with keystones. Plain render and moulded stringcourses to parapet.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed grade II as a good example of a mid C19 Masonic Hall having group value with No. 108 Lower Dock Street.
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