Great House and Heron House is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 November 1999. House.

Great House and Heron House

WRENN ID
final-fireplace-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Constituency
Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
4 November 1999
Type
House
Address
Great House and Heron House, The Village (Ultra Pontem), Caerleon
OS grid reference
ST 344 901
Coordinates
51.60594, -2.94731
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Great House and Heron House is a two-storey building featuring a pink rendered façade with a three-window range on the left and exposed stone walling with a two-window range on the right. The structure has steep slate roofs and tall brick chimneys with stepped-out cornices. The main section includes two widely spaced 12-pane horned sash windows, while Heron House has modern uPVC glazing. On the ground floor, there is a similar window on the right and a doorway with a 19th-century door on the left. The Heron House doorway is located under a ramped cemented surround to the left of centre.

The left wall of Heron House features a corbelled out stone and rubble gable end chimney stack. The lower section on the right has two modern casements on the upper floor, a modern bow window, and a garage entrance on the ground floor. The inspected ground floor retains good chamfered beams.

Local climate

Great House and Heron House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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