Gwar Caeau is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 July 2004. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Gwar Caeau
- WRENN ID
- ghost-jade-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 July 2004
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gwar Caeau, Ffair Rhos, Ystrad Meurig, Ystrad Fflur
- OS grid reference
- SN 759 687
- Coordinates
- 52.30257, -3.82046
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Gwar Caeau is a cottage built from cement-washed rubble stone, topped with a slate roof and featuring stone end stacks that have dripstones and capstones. The cottage is single-storey and double-fronted, with two ground floor windows and a central door. The windows have stone voussoirs and slate sills. The right-hand window has damaged fixed 12-pane glazing, while the left window is missing its glazing. This left window shows a straight joint extending down to the ground just beyond the left jamb, indicating it may have been a former doorway. The front door is also damaged. On the left end, there is a small loft window. At the rear, there is a small stone lean-to that has an end window and is covered with corrugated iron roofing.
To the right of the cottage, there is an attached rubble stone cow-byre that features a low doorway on the extreme left and has corrugated iron roofing in poor condition. Additionally, there is a small rubble lean-to at the rear. The property has not been inspected.
Local climate
Gwar Caeau 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
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