Hafod-y-coed is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 March 2005. Cottage.
Hafod-y-coed
- WRENN ID
- late-lintel-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 March 2005
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hafod-y-coed, Pontarfynach, Aberystwyth
- OS grid reference
- SN 724 771
- Coordinates
- 52.37758, -3.87572
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Hafod-y-coed is a cottage built from painted corrugated iron on a timber frame, featuring a similar corrugated iron roof and a brick ridge chimney positioned to the left of center. The cottage is single-storey and has an overhanging front awning supported by timber raking brackets. The awning has zig-zag timber eaves with a pierced hole in each board. The front of the cottage consists of six bays, each with horned 4-pane sash windows. To the left is a door located within a later addition, followed by a sash window, two more sashes, a half-glazed door, and a final sash window. The right end of the cottage is windowless. At the left corner, there is an addition that is set at right angles, which features a triple casement window and a half-glazed door facing east. The interior is reported to be boarded throughout.
Local climate
Hafod-y-coed sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings