Imperial House is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 April 1992. Villa, flats.
Imperial House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-grate-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1992
- Type
- Villa, flats
- Address
- Imperial House, Cardigan
- OS grid reference
- SN 179 460
- Coordinates
- 52.08258, -4.65763
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Imperial House is a villa, now converted into flats, built in squared blue lias stone with a slate roof and large black brick chimney stacks at the ends. The south elevation facing Church Street is two storeys high and features three windows. It has a prominent timber bracketed cornice, three first-floor 12-pane sash windows with slightly cambered rendered heads, and three ground-floor arch-headed sash windows with radiating glazing bars. The stone frames of the ground-floor windows are recessed and have rendered arched heads, with slate sills beneath. There are also two basement cambered-headed windows fitted with iron grilles and a large 20th-century dormer.
On the east side, the wall has a slate course across the gable, with an attic window, a first-floor 12-pane sash, and a six-panel door all centrally located. To the right, there is a long pointed arched stair light with small panes and intersecting glazing bars. The door features a traceried overlight and is set within a timber tent porch that has altered wooden posts at the outer angles.
The rear wall includes three windows above and below a large six-panel door, which also has a traceried overlight and a hood supported on brackets. There are two basement windows as well.
Inside, there is an open-well stair with stick balusters located at the east end, consisting of two flights and a landing.
Local climate
Imperial House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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