Victoria Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 2000. Almshouses.
Victoria Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-cellar-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newport
- Constituency
- Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 March 2000
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Victoria Almshouses, Stow Hill
- OS grid reference
- ST 309 877
- Coordinates
- 51.58391, -2.99784
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Victoria Almshouses is a U-plan block consisting of nine single-storey almshouses. The building is made of red brick with painted stone dressings and features red plain tiled roofs along with tall red brick chimneys. The ends of the blocks that face the road have plastered pedimental gables. On the south gable, there is an inscription that reads "Queen Victoria Memorial AD 1901," while the north gable has the inscription "Newport Almshouses Roger Williams Charity AD 1700." Each arm of the blocks that faces inward towards the garden yard has two similar gables with oculi. The center of the cross range includes a single similar gable made of plain brick.
Local climate
Victoria Almshouses 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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