Viletta is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 November 1999. House.

Viletta

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Constituency
Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 November 1999
Type
House
Address
Viletta, 7 Stow Park Crescent, Stow Park, Gaer
OS grid reference
ST 302 875
Coordinates
51.58247, -3.00872
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Viletta is a two-storey house with a complex design, built in a roughly cross-shaped plan. It is constructed mainly of squared sandstone, featuring extensive Bathstone detailing. The roofs are red clay-tiled, with a gambrel style on the south side, which includes a small bargeboarded gablet containing a triangular louvre. The northern gabled cross wing has a lower gabled service block extending beyond it. A tall brick chimney stack is positioned to the left of the centre of the main north-south block, featuring a cruciform section with ribs and heavy tabling. There is also a chimney between the cross wing and service block that has a stone plinth with a carved Bathstone plaque, and a shouldered stage above made of brick, though the flues are truncated.

The south front of the house has its upper floor covered in shaped clay tiles that return to the east above the porch. The upper floor jetties out on triple Bathstone corbels. The ground floor features a canted mullion-and-transom bay window made of Bathstone, while above it is a timber rectangular oriel window with six lights and an ogee-shaped base that slightly breaks the eaves line. To the right, there is a door framed in Bathstone, situated between the main block and a high blind wall that fronts the street, which has moulded Bathstone copings. This wall continues from the east front, which directly faces the street.

The east front includes a gabled cross wing with a half-timbered upper floor that has a tripartite sash window, with each light featuring 6/1 glazing. Below, there is a tripartite sash window set in a Bathstone frame with small-paned glazing. The roof of the main block sweeps down over a short section to the left of the cross wing, which has an elaborate Bathstone frame that may be the original door, along with a tablet above under the cornice carved with the house name. A small window is located to the right, and there is a long frieze-like dormer above with a sloping roof. The service end of the house has a gable facing north, which sweeps down to the right of the cross wing, and the north elevation is tile-hung with sash windows. The west elevation faces the garden and features a broad projecting central gabled section.

The interior was not available for inspection at the time of the survey in April 1999.

Local climate

Viletta 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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