Former Stables to The Rock and Fountain Inn PH is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 September 1990. Stable block.
Former Stables to The Rock and Fountain Inn PH
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-latch-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newport
- Constituency
- Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 September 1990
- Type
- Stable block
- Address
- Former Stables to The Rock and Fountain Inn PH, A48, Penhow
- OS grid reference
- ST 425 910
- Coordinates
- 51.61503, -2.83067
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building is a former stable block, possibly dating back to the 17th century, and is believed to have served the Rock and Fountain Inn Public House. It is two storeys tall with rectangular elevations made of whitewashed rubble and features a hipped roof covered with terracotta pantiles. The roadside elevation has six window openings with cambered heads, three on the ground floor and three above, all offset to the right. The first-floor windows have simple square-sectioned mullions, while the ground floor openings are fitted with timber shutters and a central bar; one ground floor window on the left has been bricked up. The west gable includes a large cartshed entrance with a timber lintel and a square window above it. The rear elevation is unlit and has a central square-headed loft doorway at first floor level, which is offset and accessed by a flight of stone steps with a wrought iron handrail. The east gable features a single square window opening at first floor level, but the window is missing. A gabled cross range that once closed the yard to the northeast has been removed, and there are blocked doorways beneath the render on the sides, as no stable doors remain. The building was noted to be in poor condition during an inspection in July 1995, and it was not accessible at that time.
Local climate
Former Stables to The Rock and Fountain Inn PH receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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