Guard Room beside main entrance, Raglan Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 February 1993. Guard room.

Guard Room beside main entrance, Raglan Barracks

WRENN ID
veiled-shingle-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Constituency
Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 February 1993
Type
Guard room
Address
Guard Room beside main entrance, Raglan Barracks, Barrack Hill, Allt-Yr-Yn
OS grid reference
ST 303 890
Coordinates
51.59625, -3.00691
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Guard Room beside the main entrance of Raglan Barracks is a single-storey building constructed from coursed rubble, featuring a plinth, rock-faced quoins, and freestone dressings around the window and door openings. It has a slate roof that is hipped at the front (southwest) end, which covers an open porch supported by iron columns. There is a rendered brick chimney stack located at the center of the roof. The building includes 12-pane sash windows, one of which is missing a horizontal glazing bar, and there is a boarded door entrance at the front that has a 3-pane overlight above it.

Local climate

Guard Room beside main entrance, Raglan Barracks receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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