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.
Date of Designation
31/03/2000
Date of Amendment
31/03/2000
Name of Property
1-6 Burton Homes
Unitary Authority
Newport
Location
At W end of Friars Road, set back behind gardens.
History
One of 2 identical sets of 6 almshouses built in 1908.
Exterior
Single-storey block of almshouses in red-brown rock-faced stone with bathstone dressings; plain tiled roofs; brick chimneys; mullion and transom windows with small-pane casement glazing. To each end, set forward, block with paired half-timbered gables, and tiled hood over pair of splayed bay windows, inner elevations have lean-to porch with roof following roof line of gable; porches half-timbered and glazed. Between end blocks, 4 houses each consisting of central steeply-gabled half-timbered porch with mullion and transom window to each side.
Reason for designation
Well-preserved and designed example of unusual building type; group value with adjacent set of almshouses.
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