6 King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. Townhouse.
6 King Street
- WRENN ID
- nether-portal-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1987
- Type
- Townhouse
- Address
- 6 King Street, Aberystwyth, SY23 4HS
- OS grid reference
- SN 581 817
- Coordinates
- 52.41498, -4.08758
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
6 King Street is a Victorian building that has undergone alterations. Number 5 features a three-storey front with two windows, finished in scribed render and accented with quoins, cill bands, and a rusticated ground floor and plinth. Numbers 6 and 7 are two-storey buildings with attic spaces, each having two windows. Number 6 is covered in scribed cement render, while Number 7 has a roughcast finish with quoins and a cill band. Both have rusticated ground floors and plinths. The roofs are slate, with wide boarded eaves on Number 5 and bracket eaves on Numbers 6 and 7, which also have rubble chimney stacks.
Number 6 features slate-hung dormers and a swept roof, while Number 7 has a pitched roof with cusped bargeboards, a pendant, and a finial. The sash windows on Numbers 5 and 7 do not have glazing bars, while Number 6 has small panes. Number 5 has a three-storey bay window with panelled aprons, and Number 7 has a similar two-storey bay window. The doorcases are topped with wide bracket cornices, and Numbers 5 and 6 have panelled reveals, while Number 7 features reeded half-columns. The doors are panelled and half-glazed.
On the right-hand gable end facing Castle Street, there are cusped bargeboards and two sash windows. There is also a cross range at the rear of Number 6.
Local climate
6 King Street 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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