Description

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SJ 7418 NE 2/7
5362
28.4.52

NEWPORT
HIGH STREET
(West Side)
Nos 1 and 3 (Old Guildhall)

II*

Possible Guildhall, later in domestic use, now a shop pair (July 1986). Circa
1400, extended to the north in the later C16, with gable added to the north end
of the street front sometime in the C19. Exposed timber-framing with painted brick
infilling; framing with close-studding and wind-braces. Plain tiled roof with
end stack and ridge stack to right of centre on lateral ridge. C19 ornamental
bargeboards on left crosswing gable. 2 storeys; irregular fenestration of 4 windows
on first floor, the outer ones in small square gabled oriel-bays, the inner pair
glazing bar sashes. Central C19 bay on ground floor, canted with glazing bars;
shopfronts on ground floor of crosswings, both with central entrances. Doorway
to right of central ground-floor bay. Bressumer over ground floor of central recess
carved with guilloche and other decoration, and 'PW' and 'William 1615 Grecari'
(probably not related to any building date). Interior: the crosswing to the left
contains evidence that it was built as an open-hall, gable-end to the street.
It originally consisted of four bays, the two end bays floored and the two central
bays open to the roof. Central truss shows evidence of cusped arch-braces. Two
rows of purlins to roof, one close to the apex of the roof, the purlins and principal
rafters chamfered and stopped. Cusped and pierced windbraces between rows of
purlins. This building is listed II* for its rarity as an example of a former
open hall with cusped arch-braced and wind-braced roof, especially considering
its easterly position.

Listing NGR: SJ7460518892

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Newport Guildhall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata IDs Q17565191 Q7018857

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock