Fairoak is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 March 1979. Townhouse.

Fairoak

WRENN ID
eastward-arch-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Constituency
Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 March 1979
Type
Townhouse
Address
Fairoak, Bassaleg, Graig
OS grid reference
ST 270 868
Coordinates
51.57622, -3.0535
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Fairoak is a house that has been rendered and features a stone-tiled roof with two yellow brick chimney stacks, one located at the right end and another on the ridge, one bay in from the left end. In 1979, there was a third chimney stack on the left end. The building is a long, single-storey structure with an attic, which includes small eaves-breaking gabled dormers: one in the first bay, one in the centre, and one further right, each with pairs of casement windows.

The ground floor has a porch to the right of centre, flanked by two pairs of casement windows to the left and one to the right. There is a single casement window in the first bay to the left, and a lean-to outbuilding with a slate roof in the last bay to the right. The gabled 19th-century porch features a roof made of shaped slates, a bargeboarded gable, and trellis sides, and it covers a six-panel door with the top four panels being fielded.

At the rear, there is a former coach-house range dating from around 1900, which has a slate roof and a yellow brick chimney stack on the ridge. The rendered left end has paired gables, with a tiny window on the ground floor of the original house and a pair of casement windows on the ground floor of the rear range.

The property was not inspected, but in 1979, there were three stop-chamfered beams with run-out stops on the ground floor. There is a fireplace to the left of the middle room, which has a concealed adjoining winding staircase and a fireplace with a bread oven. The house features panelled shutters, and the ceiling beam in the left end dairy has been altered. There is also a fireplace in the lower southwest end room. It is said that the roof has been raised, with traces of an earlier roof possibly remaining above the dairy.

Local climate

Fairoak sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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