Pontfaen Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 August 1997. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Pontfaen Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1997
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pontfaen Cottage, Cellan, Lampeter, Llanfair Clydogau, SW1V 4QQ
- OS grid reference
- SN 608 492
- Coordinates
- 52.12356, -4.03462
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pontfaen Cottage is a two-storey building with a whitewashed roughcast exterior and a slate roof featuring end stacks. The left side is rendered, while the right side, which is the party wall with Nythfa, is constructed of rubble stone and has stone tabling. The cottage has a four-window range, with 20th-century casement windows and an early 19th-century door in the second bay. The door is half-glazed and features nine panes along with two fielded panels. The windows are set on stone sills.
Local climate
Pontfaen Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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