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Bellmans Yard, High Street, NEWPORT, TF10 7AJ

Baddeley Court was the result of the conversion of a former Budgens supermarket into smaller retail units. It was completed in 2019. Occupiers of the units include Specsavers, Peacocks and Cardfactory.

Grade II listed late 18th century façade with 17th century timber frame, formerly The Star public house, first recorded in 1797, it closed in 1980 and is now Barbers Estate Agency.

Woolworths in Newport has found a new lease of life, as a discount store.

Boots pharmacy in an early 19th century, grade II listed building on Newport High Street

The Barley public house is on the corner of Newport High Street and Stafford Street.

Late 18th century, grade II listed house at 10 High Street, home to three generations of the Baddeley family, medical practitioners. Dr.George Baddeley was a pioneer of public health, promoting better sanitation and improved water supply with the sinking of 'Baddeley's Hydraulic Well' in 1883.

I have a confession to make. I've lived in Shropshire for the best part of a decade and had never visited Newport before today. I've wanted to, many times. But I have never had reason to and in my mind that kind of sums Newport up. It seems to me that you have to fight through a vortex of some kind to get there. Admittedly I live in deepest South Shrops but no one in ten years has said "I was in Newport - you must go!" It's not near anywhere and it's certainly a long way from Ludlow. I've even been to that Gingerbready place - Market Drayton, I believe it's called. And Whitchurch. And Telford. Once. (No many times in reality). But until today I was unknown to Newport and it to me. That is rectified and I loved it - but my god it took ages to drive there. I drove and hoped, drove a long way further and had to pull over and check my road atlas and I passed through places that made me believe I had strayed into a parallel universe where even the place names seemed obviously made up (Crudgington, Cherryton and Edgton if I recall correctly) and I appreciated again what a big - really big - county Shropshire is. I was fascinated and rewarded by my visit. I'll be back.

A 19th century brick refacing of what is, beneath the exterior, a 16th century timber-framed building. At one time in the early 18th century it was known as The Bell Inn, hence the carriage entrance on the right leading to the former stables and similar buildings to the rear. Grade II listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101054389-25-high-street-newport#.YLKi3qhKjIU & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1054389 in 1978.

A Regency building of some style, which once had a distinguished doorcase and a bow window when it was a house; it was Grade II listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101054366-54-high-street-newport & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1054366 in 1952.

Along with no 27 partly visible here to the left, nos 29 & 31 date from 1845, and all were collectively Grade II listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101177835-27-31-high-street-newport#.YLKgSahKjIU & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1177835 in 1978.