Survey Data
Reg No
31208034
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Worker's house
Date
1840 - 1897
Coordinates
99415, 294159
Date Recorded
25/11/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached three-bay two-storey mill worker's house[?], extant 1897. Now disused. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack having stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pots, lichen-covered coping to gable, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Part ivy-covered rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing four-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from road in shared grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting timber gate.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a pair (including 31208033) representing an interesting component of the domestic built heritage of the outskirts of Newport with the architectural value of the collective composition, one most likely intended for workers employed at the opposing Newport Corn and Saw Mills, suggested by such attributes as the rectilinear plan form; and the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a neat self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan setting.