Old Black Lion Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 July 1961. Hotel.
Old Black Lion Hotel
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-rubble-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1961
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Old Black Lion Hotel, 16 Bridge Street, Aberystwyth
- OS grid reference
- SN 582 815
- Coordinates
- 52.41352, -4.08553
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Black Lion Hotel is a three-storey building featuring a three-window front with scribed render. The ground floor is rusticated and has a plinth. It has a slate roof with bracket eaves and a rubble chimney stack. The windows are recessed small pane sash windows, some of which have horns. The entrance is slightly off-centre and is flanked by barley twist piers, topped with a wide cornice, and has boarded doors. There was formerly a cross range to the right, which is now No 18.
Local climate
Old Black Lion Hotel 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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