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Devon Place, NEWPORT, NP20 4NW

About a metre above the road, the elevated pavement extends to the Stanley Road junction.

This OS cut mark can be found on the wall of No38 Devon Place. It marks a point 18.416m above mean sea level.

Pagefield House, currently occupied by Haines Watts, Chartered Accountants.

Currently occupied by Purnells, Chartered Accountants & Licensed Insolvency Practitioners.

Current occupiers include Midas Construction Ltd. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1614700 for the view four months later, and an update on the occupancy.

Stanley Road is a candidate for the steepest road in Newport. It rises from 17.6 metres at its base in Devon Place to 28.8 metres at its junction with Gold Tops. The horizontal distance covered (as shown on a map ) is 59 metres, which gives a gradient of 1 in 5.3 As can be seen here, it joins Devon Place at a T junction, so in my younger, cycling, days it was one of the 'impossible' gradients, as a 'flying start' is not possible. It was not a hill to cycle down either, except with brakes engaged. Fortunately, Stanley Road is not an essential link in the Newport road network. A short detour via Pentonville avoids the excessive steepness. The view from the bottom http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1596720

See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1596713 for the view looking down Stanley Road, and details of its gradient.

The signs on the wall list 3 occupants of the premises Parker & Co, accountants Citylegal, solicitors Ietech, network technology business support.

There were no signs to indicate occupancy of these premises at the date of this photo, December 10th 2009. An Internet search found that the 2,558 square feet (238 square metres) property is for sale at an asking price of £400,000, or for rent at £13.50 per square foot. The property has a mixture of open-plan offices, standard offices and meeting rooms.

Almost all the front of the building can be seen in this photo taken in December, in contrast to one http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1519397 taken in mid August. The only nameplate above the letterbox at the time of this (December 10th 2009) photo was for Newport Unlimited, Newport's Urban Regeneration Company. The larger nameplates that can be seen on the edge of the pavement are for the Bank of Wales, which ceased trading in 2002, and Midas Construction, whose website shows no office in Newport.