226 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I

Tredegar HouseGrade I listedStable Block including OrangeryGrade I listedPavilion and attached ConservatoriesGrade II listedFormer Odeon Cinema (Capones Night Club)Grade II listedHollybush Bridge over the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (partly in Bettws Community)Grade II listed+19See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

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Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Of the 226 entries, 53 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

Search the rest on Cadw’s records →

Cadw’s conservation areas via DataMapWales. Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 4 entries were listed in 1951, 1 of the 3 Grade I buildings among them. 52 came in 1980. Only 6 have been added in the last 15 years.

3 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Welsh Government (Cadw).

Castell Glas Castle MoundMedieval; Motte

Newport CastleMedieval; Castle

Tredegar FortPrehistoric; Hillfort

6 registered parks and gardens

Beechwood ParkGrade II · Late nineteenth-century urban landscape park

Bellevue ParkGrade II · Urban, public, late nineteenth-century landscape park

Bryn GlasGrade II · Late nineteenth-century formal and informal garden, 'pleasure grounds' and remains of walled kitchen

Nos 15 and 17 Stow Park CircleGrade II · Rock and water garden largely constructed of artificial 'Pulhamite' stone

St. Woolos CemeteryGrade II · Landscaped garden cemetery

Tredegar ParkGrade II* · Restoration period, formal walled gardens and part of park; late eighteenth-century landscape park with later planting

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

16% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 14% of today’s homes.

Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

John Frost

Octavius Morgan

Charles William King

John Rogers Thomas

William Henry Skinner

Horace Lyne

Arthur Gould

Joseph Davies

Stanley Llewelyn Wood

W. H. Davies

Howard Passadoro

James Henry Thomas

Llewellyn Lloyd

Charlie Pritchard

Bert Thomas

Frederick Phillips

Robert Lyne

Tom Carpenter

Perce Blackborow

Lewis Lyne

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W. H. Davies1871–1940 · Welsh poet and writer (1871–1940)

James Henry Thomas1874–1949 · Welsh trade unionist and politician (1874-1949)

Perce Blackborow1894–1949 · British explorer (1894–1949)

RL

Robert Lyne1885–1957 · Welsh field hockey player (1885–1957)

John Frost1784–1877 · British Chartist (1784-1877)

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Frederick Phillips1884–1948 · Field hockey player

Arthur Gould1864–1919 · Welsh rugby union footballer (1864–1919)

Lewis Lyne1899–1970 · British Army general

Everyone born in Newport → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

More of Newport’s homes are old than in most places: 25% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 226 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I, including Newport Cathedral. Its older streets lie in 13 conservation areas, the first designated in 1979. W. H. Davies (1871), James Henry Thomas (1874) and Perce Blackborow (1894) are among the 79 people born here before 1900. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has 3 Grade I buildings, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 3); per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 3 scheduled monuments.