Stelvio House on Bassaleg Road, Newport, Wales was the home of Charles Henry Bailey, a 19th century industrialist.[1] Bailey, an engineer by training, owned the Tyne Engine Works at Newport[2] and also published a number of almanacs mainly related to shipping matters; including C. H. Bailey's Book of translations: 5,200 marine technical terms in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish & Norwegian, C. H. Bailey's Tables of Distances from Port to Port and C. H. Bailey's Book of Useful Information.[3][4][5]
Stelvio House, in the Stow Park area of the city, then and now its most prosperous area, was built in two phases in 1893 and in 1912.[6] Bailey died in 1907, but his widow continued development of the house and laid out the gardens between 1914 and 1920.[7]
Stelvio House was spot-listed on 20 March 1996 by Cadw in recognition of its architectural and historic importance. The developers, and site owners, McCarthy & Stone almost immediately demolished part of the house in what a judge called a "cynical commercial act". They were later fined £200,000, at the time, the largest fine recorded by the Institute of Historic Building Conservation.[8]
^Bailey, Charles Henry (1889). Tables of Distances from Port to Port. Newport: J.E. Southall.
^Bailey, Charles Henry (1928). Book of translations : 5,200 marine technical terms in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish & Norwegian. Newport: Graham & Co.
