Shire Hall, Newport

The Shire Hall (Welsh: Neuadd y Sir, Casnewydd) is a municipal building in Newport, south Wales.

[1] The site selected by county leaders was open land to the west of Queen's Hill in Newport.

[1][3][4] The design for the original two-storey structure involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto Pentonville with the end bays slightly projected forward; the central section, which also slightly projected forward, featured a porch with a curved pediment; there was triple window on the first floor and gable above with a roundel containing the words: "Monmouthshire County Council 1889".

[8] In May 2013, the hall was sold to Secret Millionaire Jahan Abedi[9] who submitted plans to convert the building into 11 one-bedroom apartments and seven two-bedroom flats with a reception area and a bicycle storage area.

[9][10] Abedi was later quite critical of the bureaucratic challenges he had needed to overcome to obtain a planning consent.