31, 32, 33 High Street, including 2a & 2-4 Skinner Street is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 2000. Commercial. 1 related planning application.

31, 32, 33 High Street, including 2a & 2-4 Skinner Street

WRENN ID
errant-pewter-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Constituency
Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 March 2000
Type
Commercial
Address
31, 32, 33 High Street, including 2a & 2-4 Skinner Street, Stow Hill
OS grid reference
ST 310 881
Coordinates
51.5882, -2.99665
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

31, 32, 33 High Street, including 2a & 2-4 Skinner Street, is a group of development shops with offices above, built in the Free Renaissance style. The building is constructed of pressed red brick and terra cotta and consists of three storeys plus attics. On the left side, there is a large two-storey pedimented attic dormer featuring a Dutch gable and finials, with an arched window on the upper level and two 2-light windows with pediments below. The second floor has a shallow oriel with a central niche and relief panelled aprons, along with four windows at the first floor level.

To the right, a chimney is flanked by a second-floor window with two lights and a column between, and a first-floor window with a pediment. A corner turret rises above the roofline for two storeys, topped with a steep slate roof that includes a lantern. The upper level of the turret is polygonal and features doors leading onto a balcony with iron rails, which is corbelled over the lower level.

In Skinner Street, the building continues with two bays similar to those on the left, followed by another bay that has a dormer above enclosing an arched window, and then a narrow bay. There are three additional bays (2-4 Skinner Street) in a simpler style, with the end bay featuring a gable. On the ground floor, No 33 (Principality) has a shopfront with polished granite detailing, while the other shops have modern shopfronts.

Local climate

31, 32, 33 High Street, including 2a & 2-4 Skinner Street receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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