Location : formerly 12, Robert Street
= Property demolished or site redeveloped
Notes: demolished 1971-2. On an upper floor accessed from a close.
Part of a block. Other parts: formerly 6 Robert Street formerly 8 Robert Street formerly 10 Robert Street
Commentary
All ground floor properties (2, 4, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 32/34 Robert Street) were built as shops but they lost out to the High Street and many were soon used as houses. There were 2 groups of houses on the two upper floors - 6, 8, 10 & 12 were accessed by a close and 24, 26, 28 & 30 were accessed by another close. (All numbers refer to 1967 numbering.)
On this whole plot there have been 3 generations of buildings.
1. Built from the 1830s on, a house, Tay Cottage, on Tay Street; further up Robert Street Turnbull's 2 workshop buildings with a house above one of them. Tay Cottage was demolished in 1876, the workshop in late 1877.
2. Built in 1877, the Royal Hotel on Tay Street, and a row of shops with houses above running up Robert Street and round into Union Street (the last bit built 1878). The whole block was known as Royal Buildings. They were all demolished in 1971-2.
3. Built in 1973-4, the existing Royal Buildings.
Location and Old Maps
Latitude, longitude: 56.441950,-2.940113
View location on the 1855 6-inch map, the 1895 25-inch map, the 1914 25-inch map, the 1966-73 25-inch map, or a 1944-50 aerial photograph at the National Library of Scotland website.
Nearby properties (demolished in red): 1 Robert Street (formerly 2, Robert Street) 3 Robert Street (formerly 4, Robert Street) 5 Robert Street (formerly 6, Robert Street) 7 Robert Street (formerly 8, Robert Street) 9 Robert Street (formerly 10, Robert Street) 11 Robert Street 13 Robert Street (formerly 14, Robert Street) (formerly 16, Robert Street) (formerly 18, Robert Street) (formerly 20, Robert Street) (formerly 22, Robert Street) (formerly 24, Robert Street) (formerly 26, Robert Street) (formerly 28, Robert Street) (formerly 30, Robert Street) (formerly 34, Robert Street) (formerly 32, Robert Street) (house & workshop, Robert Street) (Grocer's Shop, Robert Street) 1 Royal Buildings 2 Royal Buildings 3 Royal Buildings 4 Royal Buildings 5 Royal Buildings 6 Royal Buildings 7 Royal Buildings 8 Royal Buildings 9 Royal Buildings 10 Royal Buildings 11 Royal Buildings 12 Royal Buildings 13 Royal Buildings 14 Royal Buildings 15 Royal Buildings 16 Royal Buildings 17 Royal Buildings 18 Royal Buildings 20 Tay Street 22 Tay Street 24 Tay Street 26 Tay Street 28 Tay Street 30 Tay Street (formerly 32, Tay Street) (formerly 34, Tay Street) (formerly 36, Tay Street) (formerly 38, Tay Street) (formerly 40, Tay Street) (formerly 42, Tay Street) (formerly 44, Tay Street) (formerly 46, Tay Street) (formerly 48, Tay Street) (formerly Royal Bar, 50, Tay Street) 52 Tay Street 54 Tay Street 56 Tay Street (house on site of 26, Tay Street) (house on site of Royal Hotel, Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [2], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [3], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [4], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [5], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [6], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [7], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [8], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [9], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [10], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [11], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [12], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [13], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [14], Tay Street) (old cottage [7], Tay Street) (old cottage [8], Tay Street) (old cottage [9], Tay Street) (formerly 25, Union Street) (formerly 27, Union Street) (formerly part of 27, Union Street) (formerly 29, Union Street) 17 Union Street 19 Union Street 21 Union Street 23 Union Street (hut addition for telephone exchange, Union Street) (former slater's yard, Union Street)
Later use of the site : 10 Royal Buildings 11 Royal Buildings 12 Royal Buildings 7 Royal Buildings 8 Royal Buildings 9 Royal Buildings
Information and Photographs on Other Sites (open in a new window)
| Royal Buildings source: Newport History Group |
1909-10 Finance Act - Valuation Office: Field Surveys
Reference no. 75
Old Addresses (any dates are approximate and are usually the latest occurence of the address)
| 7 Robert Street | to 1964 |
House Names (any dates are approximate and are usually the latest occurence of the name)
| Royal Buildings | infrequently | |
| Turnbull's Buildings | to 1907 |
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