Ffos is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 July 2004. A C20 House.

Ffos

WRENN ID
long-stair-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 July 2004
Type
House
Address
Ffos, Swyddfynnon, Ystrad Meurig
OS grid reference
SN 687 670
Coordinates
52.286, -3.92617
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Ffos is a house constructed from colour-washed rubble stone, topped with a slate roof featuring rendered end stacks, the left stack being larger. It is two storeys high with an attic. The long front façade has three widely spaced twelve-pane sash windows on the upper floor, each with brick cambered heads and slate sills. The ground floor mirrors this with six similar openings, including three sash windows aligned with those above, plus an additional sash window to the right of the first bay and another to the right of the last bay. There is a plain board door in a wider opening to the right of the centre bay, which has a very narrow overlight.

To the left, there is a 20th-century blockwork lean-to garage. The right end wall features a triple mullion window in the attic with three tiny sashes and a heavy lintel. The long rear roof slope has a four-pane casement window to the right. The rear side includes a yellow brick stack on the roof slope to the right and a range of four large sash windows: a nine-pane window on the ground floor to the left, a doorway with a board door, a nine-pane sash with a four-pane casement above it under the eaves, and a four-pane sash window to the right.

Inside, the front door opens into a boarded lobby with four-panelled doors leading to the former kitchen, a passage to the rear kitchen, a stairwell, and a parlour. The passage is flagged and has two low steps leading down to the rear door, with a pantry to the right in an outshut and a rear kitchen featuring two oak beams to the left. There is a dogleg stair with thick stick balusters and ball finials. The upstairs rooms are divided by board partitions, and the rear room, located under the outshut, shows evidence of another staircase rising from the pantry.

Local climate

Ffos 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 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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