Little Bulmore is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 May 1981. A C17 House.
Little Bulmore
- WRENN ID
- tired-gutter-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newport
- Constituency
- Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Little Bulmore, Christchurch, Caerleon
- OS grid reference
- ST 356 911
- Coordinates
- 51.61553, -2.93071
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Little Bulmore is a house made of local sandstone and conglomerate rubble, topped with a roof of Welsh slate and concrete tiles. It stands two-and-a-half storeys high and features a hall and cross-wing plan. This layout is a reconstruction from after 1981, as the building was originally a single-unit, gable-fronted farmhouse situated downhill from an adjacent cowshed, which was partly built separately.
The right gabled section of the house has one casement window with plain dripmoulds. The ground floor window is a 4-light design with quarter-round moulded mullions, while the first-floor window is a 3-light with a plain chamfered rebate for glass. There is also a small single-light window with chamfered jambs in the gable head, which had a plain diamond mullion in 1981. To the left, an altered doorway features a modern glazed door, and there is another doorway at first floor level in the largely rebuilt rear gable. The left wing has two windows on the ground floor, each with 3 + 3 casements under elliptical brick heads, and above are casements under the eaves, but not aligned with those below. The roof is plain, covered in concrete interlocking tiles, and includes a roof light and a rebuilt chimney, all of which are 1980s alterations. The right-hand return has a 19th-century lean-to, while the left return shows brick repairs. The rear elevation is only partially visible and features late 20th-century elements.
The 17th-century gabled wing has ground floor ceiling beams that are chamfered with decorative bar-and-runout stops, and the chamfered joists have diagonal stops. The roof trusses consist of principals with ties and purlins, although the apex is not visible. This structure is considered by Fox and Raglan to be very late upper crucks. There is one principal beam in the wing that appears to be from the 17th century, while the rest of the roof is sawn with staggered purlins. The interior of the house is otherwise featureless.
Local climate
Little Bulmore 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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