Caretaker’s / Gardener’s Lodge 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. House, workshop.
Caretaker’s / Gardener’s Lodge at the University of South Wales, Caerleon Campus
- WRENN ID
- worn-barrel-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newport
- Constituency
- Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 March 2017
- Type
- House, workshop
- OS grid reference
- ST 335 912
- Coordinates
- 51.61616, -2.96122
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Caretaker’s or Gardener’s Lodge at the University of South Wales, located on the Caerleon Campus, is a two-storey building with a mixed Revival style, constructed from Old Red Sandstone rubble and featuring Bath stone dressings. It has hipped slate roofs, deep eaves, and ashlar chimney stacks. The sash windows include upper lights with small panes and large single pane lower lights.
The building has an off-square plan with a single-storey range attached to the northeast. Both the elevation facing the college approach and the northwest elevation consist of three bays. The entrance elevation to the southeast features three doors on the ground floor, with the principal door on the left having a Bath stone surround, while the service doors on the right include a ventilation window. Above, there are three windows, with the central window being lowered. The workshop range includes two tall windows and two doorways; the left doorway is wide and boarded, while the right is narrow with an overlight. The northern gable end has a single window, and the west return features a tall central window and a door to the right on the southern gable. The property has not been inspected.
Local climate
Caretaker’s / Gardener’s Lodge 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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