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High Street, NEWPORT, TF10 7AR

The mid 18th century brick facade hides an earlier (17th century) core construction, which is probably timber-framed - part of this is exposed in on the far end. It attracted a Grade II listing https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101367300-5-9-high-street-newport#.YLyNXPlKjIU & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1367300 in 1952.

This rather striking red-brick building dates from the early 19th century, and attracted a Grade II listing https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101054388-the-literary-institute-newport#.YLKjy6hKjIU & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1054388 in mid 1978.

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.

Newport's Guildhall is a Grade II listed building. It consists of two buildings which date from late 15th and early 16th century. They seem to have been planned as two separate buildings and joined up at a later date. The main hall/booth hall on the left was a medieval open hall and has very fine quatrefoil windbraces. The Guildhall was restored in the early 1990's and reopened in 1995 as Newport town council offices.

Grade II* listed complex of buildings developed around an open hall with roof timbers dated to 1486. The merchant guild was formed in the 13th century, later becoming the Guild of St.Mary and dissolved at the Reformation. The buildings were converted for domestic use after 1583 and survived the disastrous Fire of Newport in 1665, the shop fronts were added in the 19th century. It is now owned by Boughey Trust and leased to Newport Town Council for a peppercorn rent.

The lefthand part was originally built in the 14th or early 15th century, and a similar righthand wing added in the 16th; the left wing is a rare survival of an openhall construction, with a cusped arch-braced and wind-braced roof. The whole building was Grade II* listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101177807-old-guildhall-newport#.YLyFc_lKjIU & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1177807 in 1952. The conversion of the ground floor from domestic use, and addition of the shop fronts, is probably a 19th century alteration.

The heart of historic Newport looking north

Looking towards the centre of the town; the Guildhall is on the immediate left.

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.

Grade II* listed complex of buildings developed around an open hall with roof timbers dated to 1486. The merchant guild was formed in the 13th century, later becoming the Guild of St.Mary and dissolved at the Reformation. The buildings were converted for domestic use after 1583 and survived the disastrous Fire of Newport in 1665, the shop fronts were added in the 19th century. It is now owned by Boughey Trust and leased to Newport Town Council for a peppercorn rent.