Wildings is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 July 1998. Department store. 9 related planning applications.

Wildings

WRENN ID
ruined-mantel-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Constituency
Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 July 1998
Type
Department store
Address
Wildings, 165 Commercial Street, Stow Hill, NP20 1UL
OS grid reference
ST 310 880
Coordinates
51.58684, -2.99589
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Wildings is a four-storey, five-window department store building designed in the free Renaissance style. It is constructed of Bathstone ashlar, with yellow brick chimneys and a roof made of slate substitute. The five-window front is enhanced by pilaster strips, and a cornice featuring a Doric frieze of triglyphs and paterae projects forward beneath a central attic dormer that contains two round-headed windows. The pavilion roof is covered in lead, and there are iron railings at the front. The second and third floors feature camber-headed windows with original T-bar casement glazing. On the first floor, there is a large five-light display window topped with a dentil cornice. The ground floor has a mid-20th century double-fronted shopfront and a deep canopy. The rear of the building has large 20th-century extensions. The interior has been largely modernised.

Local climate

Wildings 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 9 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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