Central Chambers (Former Gas Showrooms) is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 2000. Commercial building. 10 related planning applications.

Central Chambers (Former Gas Showrooms)

WRENN ID
third-buttress-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Constituency
Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 March 2000
Type
Commercial building
Address
Central Chambers (Former Gas Showrooms), 4-8 Stow Hill, Stow Hill
OS grid reference
ST 310 881
Coordinates
51.58769, -2.99705
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is an Italianate style building, likely dating from the mid-19th century. It is three storeys high and constructed of brick with pale stone dressings. The building has eight windows at the second floor level, with the outer bays emphasised by quoins. The second-floor windows have architraves topped with cornices, and horned sash glazing. The first floor features a variety of window styles from left to right: a window with a segmental pediment, a tripartite window with a central pediment, two central bays with windows each having a segmental pediment, another tripartite window with a central pediment, and finally a window with a segmental pediment. The ground floor’s outer bays are distinguished by doorways with pediments above elliptical openings containing half-glazed doors.

Local climate

Central Chambers (Former Gas Showrooms) 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 — 2 transactions since 2016
  • Related listed building consents — 10 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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