74 High Street, Newport

Late-C18 house, converted to a shop on the ground floor.

MATERIALS: painted stucco under a clay tile roof.

PLAN: rectangular in plan with a narrow front elevation.

EXTERIOR: the building is of two storeys plus an attic and is one bay wide. The ground floor has a C20 shopfront consisting of a glazed door to either side of two glazed windows, over a brick panel in stretcher bond. It is flanked by Doric pilasters with plain bases and fluted faces, which support a frieze and cornice.

At first-floor level there is a centrally placed, oriel window with three faces. The two narrow outer faces consist of two-over-two sashes whilst the front face consists of a single eight-over-eight sash. There are plains strips between the inner and outer sashes whist the window as a whole is framed with thin, fluted Doric pilasters, a block cill, narrow frieze and shallow cornice. The cornice of the bow window is at the same level as a stepped eaves cornice. The roof is steeply-pitched and has a modern skylight.

The west side elevation is gabled and has hung tile to the first floor.

To the rear there appears to be a long and linear, single-storey wing with pitched roof.