Gerlan is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.

Gerlan

WRENN ID
fallen-minaret-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 November 1987
Type
House
Address
Gerlan, 5 King Street, Aberystwyth, SY23 4HS
OS grid reference
SN 581 817
Coordinates
52.41502, -4.08752
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Gerlan is a Victorian building that has undergone alterations. Number 5 features a three-storey, two-window front made of scribed render, with quoins, cill bands, and a rusticated ground floor and plinth. Numbers 6 and 7 have two-storey and attic two-window fronts; No 6 is finished in scribed cement render, while No 7 has a roughcast exterior with quoins and a cill band. Both have rusticated ground floors and plinths. The roofs are slate, with wide boarded eaves on No 5 and bracket eaves on Nos 6 and 7, which also have rubble chimney stacks. There are slate-hung dormers, with No 6 featuring a swept roof and No 7 having a pitched roof adorned with cusped bargeboards, a pendant, and a finial. The sash windows on Nos 5 and 7 lack glazing bars, while No 6 has small panes. No 5 boasts a three-storey bay window with panelled aprons, and No 7 has a similar two-storey bay window. The doorcases have wide bracket cornices, with panelled reveals on Nos 5 and 6, and reeded half-columns on No 7; all feature panelled and half-glazed doors. The right-hand gable end facing Castle Street has cusped bargeboards and two sash windows. Additionally, there is a cross range at the rear of No 6.

Local climate

Gerlan 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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