Highbury Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 2000. Commercial block, office. 16 related planning applications.

Highbury Chambers

WRENN ID
errant-loft-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Constituency
Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 March 2000
Type
Commercial block, office
Address
Highbury Chambers, 6-10 Skinner Street, Stow Hill, NP20 1GY
OS grid reference
ST 310 881
Coordinates
51.58831, -2.99612
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Highbury Chambers is a commercial block of offices situated above shops, built in 1892. The building features red brick construction with yellow brick pilasters and some bathstone dressings. It stands four storeys tall and consists of five bays. The central narrow bay, framed by pilasters, includes a single camber-headed window on each floor. At the parapet level, there is an inscription that reads "Highbury Chambers," and beneath the pediment is the date "1892." The ground floor showcases a stone doorcase with a segmental pediment. On the top floor, there are large semi-circular windows on either side of the central bay, while the first and second floors feature a two-storey splayed oriel window. The outer bays have three camber-headed windows on the second and third floors, and a splayed oriel window on the first floor. The ground floor shopfronts have been modernised.

Local climate

Highbury Chambers 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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