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
81806
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/08/2003
Date of Amendment
22/08/2003
Name of Property
Tower at SW corner of churchyard, attached to Tredegar Arms
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Graig
Town
Newport
Locality
Bassaleg
Easting
327697
Northing
187049
Street Side
N
Location
Situated attached to E end wall of Tredegar Arms Inn in Bassaleg.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Later C19 tower, purpose unknown, linked by short length of churchyard wall to lychgate, and attached to Tredegar Arms.
Exterior
Tower, purple squared rubble stone with grey sandstone ashlar dressings. Two storeys with string courses and embattled parapet on S and E sides, E side with 2 truncated chimneys. Front has depressed-arched chamfered doorway to left and narrow chamfered rectangular light to right on ground floor, and first floor 3-light mullion-and-transom window.
Interior
Interior gutted and roofless, built against E end wall of the inn.
Reason for designation
Included as a Victorian tower of group value with the lychgate and churchyard walls.
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