Howells is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Howells
- WRENN ID
- buried-rood-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Howells, 33&35 Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, SL9 0YH
- OS grid reference
- SN 582 816
- Coordinates
- 52.41447, -4.08545
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Howells is a late Georgian three-storey building featuring stucco elevations. It has one window facing Great Darkgate Street, one window on a splayed corner, and three windows on Market Street. The roof is covered with modern corrugated tiles and has bracket eaves along with a brick chimney stack. The small-pane sash windows include one that is blocked on the first floor facing Market Street. The building also has a modern wraparound shop front.
Included for group value is an adjacent broad three-storey, two-window front on Great Darkgate Street, which has Victorian alterations. This section steps up from the Georgian corner block and features a dividing channelled pilaster strip. It has a similar modern roof, wide bracket eaves, and a brick stack. The Victorian section includes splayed bays with moulded cornices and horned sash windows, along with a continuous modern shop front.
Local climate
Howells sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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