Iconic Newport city centre building The Estates Office has welcomed its latest tenant with the arrival of recruitment business start up Foxwood.
Lord Tredegar’s former estates office in the heart of Newport has become a magnet for business in the 21st century after being transformed into serviced offices The Estates office
Latest occupant Foxwood has taken the final 350 sq ft currently available in the building on a three year lease at £5,660 per annum.
Foxwood Recruitment has been created by Newport-based recruitment professionals Jonathan Davies and Victoria Peedle.
Victoria said: “We are delighted to have been able to start up our new business, Foxwood Recruitment, in such a brilliant location and fantastic historic building right in the very heart of the rejuvenated city of Newport.”
Fiona Weaver, of lettings agent Hutchings and Thomas Chartered Surveyors, said: “The Estates Office continues to be a very popular location for business. Foxwood were initially very taken with the design of the historic building and then by the space offered and the location with easy access to the motorway network bus route and train station.”
“The Estates Office is providing just what the SME market needs in terms of serviced office accommodation. The iconic building, with its eclectic mix of historic architectural features and modern fit out, is also ideally located next to the city’s main line railway station and close to the M4. The historic city centre building is proving a honey pot for small and medium seized businesses after reopening a year ago following a complete refurbishment and rejuvenation.
Dating back to 1905 the Grade II listed building at Pentonville, Gold Tops, is at the centre of the city of Newport’s commercial and professional district.
In total there are now ten separate businesses in the building together employing in excess of forty people. Space has been extended into the former stables at the rear which in the early part of the last century served the original building
Bought by private investors from the South of England after previously being used as court house but latterly empty the historic building, renamed The Estates Office, it provides ultra modern connected office accommodation.
The other tenants currently based at the Estates Office building are Gloucester headquartered architects Roberts Limbrick, Parade Design, Create Wealth, Maria Farelly Photography, Study Bridge, Simply Factoring Brokers, Atlas AV, G2A Energy, David Barnes Public Relations and Richard Andrews Architects.