Stable Range at Hafod and attached courtyard walls is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 September 1999. Stable. 4 related planning applications.

Stable Range at Hafod and attached courtyard walls

WRENN ID
tenth-gutter-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 September 1999
Type
Stable
Address
Stable Range at Hafod and attached courtyard walls, Ystrad Meurig, Pontarfynach, SY25 6DX
OS grid reference
SN 759 733
Coordinates
52.34373, -3.82253
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The stable range and associated courtyard walls at Hafod date from 1882, as indicated by a datestone. The stable range is a single-story L-shaped building constructed of rubble stone with slate eaves roofs and low gabled ventilators. Blue brick detailing is present, including keystones with impressed decoration, a quarter-round moulded eaves cornice, and brick arches. The south front is symmetrical, with a window in the outer bays and doors flanking paired central windows. The doors are boarded with two-pane fanlights, and the six-pane casement windows feature similar tilting fanlights. The blue brick arches have rusticated jambs and moulded keystones, with slate sills. The west front of the eastern range features a similar door and paired windows to the left, and paired large coach entries to the right, with brick piers, jambs and round arches. A datestone between the arches is inscribed 'J.W.1882'. The gable ends have overhanging verges. The north rear wall includes a pair of arched windows to the right.

The buildings overlook a lawned court, enclosed by low rubble walls. A short, low rubble wall runs south from the south end of the eastern range to a taller rubble wall along the south side of the court; a late 19th-century blue-brick archway is located towards the right of this wall, featuring a moulded keystone on its outer south face. An iron gate is present, as is a buttress to the right of the arch. The west side of the courtyard is enclosed by a high rubble wall running north-south, with traces of various blocked openings. At the north end, a single-story outbuilding runs west, with a hipped roof and a west-facing hipped porch. The north wall of the outbuilding has a door and window on the left, and a broader shuttered window on the right. The porch features a north-facing door. The south side has a broad shuttered window to the left of centre.

Inside the south-facing stable range, the stalls remain intact with high boarded sides and iron grilles above. The doors into the stalls have cast-iron posts with plain over-arches rising from ball finials, and the floor is paved with terracotta.

Local climate

Stable Range at Hafod and attached courtyard walls sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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