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
16956
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/07/1996
Date of Amendment
31/03/2000
Name of Property
Terracing below Pavilion and Conservatories
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Stow Hill
Town
Locality
Belle Vue Park
Easting
330630
Northing
187164
Street Side
Location
Below, and to E of pavilion which is about 100m E of park entrance at junction of Waterloo Road and Stow Park Road.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Built 1910, by Thomas Mawson, landscape architect, also responsible for design of the park. Built from stone quarried in the construction of the park; the work was commissioned as unemployment relief.
Exterior
Grey-brown stone, with red terracotta balustrades and copings, ball finials.
Series of terraces sloping downwards (roughly W) giving views over Usk and Bristol Channel. At the top, partially enclosing pavilion are 2 low walls (reduced in height to NW). Below entrance to pavilion, terrace divides forming 2 flights of stairs leading down to first of 2 narrow terraces approximately 3m below pavilion; beneath these stairs, 5 segmental arches with upper windows boarded over, curving stepped walls to ends of terrace. Lower narrow terrace separated by a grass slope (drop approx. 1.5m) with 2 flights of stairs (balustrades lost), at each end of this section, exits to park. A further 2 flights of stairs lead down (drop approx. 1m) to a large rectangular terrace with a low stone parapet and circular bastions in the 2 outer corners. This terrace has a rebuilt polygonal bandstand. From this level, central pair of stairs curves down, to unite as single stair curving wall. The bottom wall has 2 stepped buttresses, and the corner bastions are battered up to parapet level.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as large scale terracing in Belle Vue Park conservation area, a Grade II entry in Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
Group value with adjacent pavilion.
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