Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
31/03/2000
Date of Amendment
31/03/2000
Name of Property
7-12 Burton Homes
Unitary Authority
Newport
Location
Near W end of Friars Road, set back behind gardens; immediately to R of 1-6.
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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