115 High Street

115 High Street, Newport, PO30 1TH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230454
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-1972
List Entry Name:: 115 High Street
Statutory Address:: 115 High Street, Newport, PO30 1TH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230454
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-May-2024
List Entry Name:: 115 High Street
Statutory Address 1:: 115 High Street, Newport, PO30 1TH

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 115 High Street, Newport, PO30 1TH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Newport and Carisbrooke
National Grid Reference:: SZ 49851 89162

Summary

Townhouse with shop, built in the early C19, shopfront replaced in the C20.

History

Newport’s first charter was granted by Richard de Redvers, fourth Earl of Devon in the late C12 and this is generally regarded as marking its foundation. The settlement was laid out on the low-lying ground along the western bank of the River Medina using a grid-style plan. Recent topographic analysis suggests that Newport may have developed around an existing informal trading settlement located at the head of Medina estuary, in the vicinity of Sea and Quay Street (Alexander, 2021). The High Street is one of five east-west running streets within the grid layout. High Street and Pyle Street extend the full length of the grid, divided by a market square, and form the planned core of Newport, with other shorter parallel streets to the south (South Street) and north (Lugley and Crocker Street). They were all largely in place by the mid-C13.

In the C14, the Isle of Wight was frequently subject to raids by French forces during long-running conflicts between England and France. According to historical documents, during one of the raids in 1377, Newport was severely damaged by fire and much of the population fled to Carisbrooke Castle. It appears that Newport was functioning again a few years later. During this century, records indicate that the population of Newport did decrease, most likely due to several wider economic factors, and did not significantly increase until the mid-C17. The town was incorporated as a borough in 1608 under a new charter granted by James I. Newport did not significantly expand beyond its medieval limits until around the late C18. By the mid-C19 there had been a more significant expansion of the town, including the development of its suburbs, which continued into the C20.

115 High Street was built in the early C19. In the mid-C19 it was occupied by tailor George Hobbs. The building appears on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map (1864; 1:2500) with an L-shaped plan. By the early C20, numbers 114 and 115 had amalgamated and were occupied by a grocers, wine and spirit merchants. In the mid-C20 the occupancy of the two buildings had separated with 115 being occupied by a baker. By around this time the rear wing had been widened to the west. The shopfront had been replaced by 1972. By the end of the C20, the ground floor of numbers 114 and 115 had been combined again.

Details

Townhouse with shop, built in the early C19, with a modern shopfront.

MATERIALS: the front elevation is constructed of painted brick, under slate roofs with brick stacks.

PLAN: to the south is the double-pile front range with hipped roofs running east to west; to the north is a rear wing which abuts the adjacent buildings.

EXTERIOR: the two-window three-storey south elevation faces onto the High Street. The ground-floor shopfront is modern. The first floor includes two shallow bow windows. Each has three lights, a curving central eight-over-eight horned sash flanked by a pair of four-over-four sashes. The lights are framed by narrow panels, and the windows are flanked by fluted pilasters which support friezes and projecting moulded cornices. There is a first-floor block string course. The second floor has a further two windows, one casement and one sash with glazing bars, which have moulded wood frames flush with the wall. The elevation is topped by a coped parapet.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 309556
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
Transcribed historic directories, accessed 23 January 2024 from https://www.foncc.org.uk/local/directory/directories.php
Other
Alexander, Magnus, Newport, Isle of Wight, High Street Heritage Action Zone: Topographic Analysis of the Late Medieval Town, Historic England Research Report 49/2021, (November 2021)
Isle of Wight Council, Newport Conservation Area Appraisal (2007)
Isle of Wight Historic Environment Service report 14024 - MIW9988 115 High Street, Newport

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.