Market Arcade, including entrance blocks in Market Street & High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 2000. Arcade.

Market Arcade, including entrance blocks in Market Street & High Street

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Constituency
Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 March 2000
Type
Arcade
Address
Market Arcade, including entrance blocks in Market Street & High Street, Stow Hill
OS grid reference
ST 310 883
Coordinates
51.58942, -2.99669
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Market Arcade, which includes entrance blocks on Market Street and High Street, is a building that features 17 shops. It has a glass roof supported by wooden kingpost trusses, and the upper floors of the shops are designed with splayed bay windows and sash glazing. A bridge with iron railings connects across the arcade.

The entrance block on Market Street is three storeys high with four windows. It is constructed of red brick with bathstone bands, and the shopfronts on either side of the entrance have been altered. The entrance block on High Street is four storeys tall with five windows and has a stucco front. The central bay features a swan neck pediment and an oval window on the top floor, positioned above a broad two-storey splayed bay window on the first and second floors. The outer bays have semi-circular windows on the top floor, situated above narrower two-storey splayed bay windows. On the ground floor, there is the entrance to the arcade, along with altered shopfronts on each side.

Local climate

Market Arcade, including entrance blocks in Market Street & High 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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