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
3062
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/04/1981
Date of Amendment
31/03/2000
Name of Property
Electricity Transformer at Park Square
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Stow Hill
Town
Newport
Locality
Easting
331085
Northing
187644
Street Side
W
Location
At W end of Park Square.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Following the Newport (Monmouthshire) Electric Lighting Order 1891, the corporation built Newport’s first power station at 21 Llanarth Street. The station supplied power at 2000 Volts AC, which had to be reduced to 200 Volts for household use at transformers such as this, and a similar listed transformer at Graham Street.
Exterior
Cast iron cylindrical casing has low conical cap bearing iron lamp standard without lamp. Rim of cap has beaded decoration; relief decoration beneath rim on body of transformer which is divided into panels by horizontal ribs, and vertical ribs which bear hinges for access doors.
Interior
Reason for designation
Extremely rare survival from early period of electricity supply industry.
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