Principal’s Residence at the University of South Wales, Caerleon Campus is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 March 2017. Residence.

Principal’s Residence at the University of South Wales, Caerleon Campus

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Constituency
Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 March 2017
Type
Residence
OS grid reference
ST 335 912
Coordinates
51.61597, -2.9616
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Principal’s Residence at the University of South Wales, located on the Caerleon Campus, is a two-storey house built in a mixed Revival style using Old Red Sandstone rubble with Bath stone dressings. It features a continuous cill course, hipped slate roofs, deep eaves, and ashlar chimney stacks. The sash windows have upper lights with small panes and large single pane lower lights.

The building has an ‘L’ shaped plan, with the main entrance front facing northeast and consisting of three bays. The central entrance is framed by a Bath stone surround and a canopy, with a narrow paired window and a raised wreath panel above. The southwest elevation, which is the ‘garden’ side, has two projecting full-height bays, followed by two bays set back to the right, and then another two bays to the right. This section includes a boarded door with an overlight offset to the right and a small side window to the left, along with a single bay at the extreme left and a full-height bay to the right featuring a plain window on the ground floor and a Bath stone window on the first floor. There is also a single ground floor window in the southeast elevation. The northeast elevation consists of eight bays, with a full-height bay to the right, followed by three full-size windows and four narrow windows that are irregularly spaced. On the ground floor, there is a ‘shopfront’ with a door on the right side within the three left-hand bays and two small windows to the right.

The building has not been inspected.

Local climate

Principal’s Residence at the University of South Wales, Caerleon Campus 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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