The Welsh Cellar is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
The Welsh Cellar
- WRENN ID
- sacred-dormer-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1987
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- The Welsh Cellar, 19 Pier Street, Aberystwyth, SY23 2LJ
- OS grid reference
- SN 582 816
- Coordinates
- 52.41471, -4.0862
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Welsh Cellar is a Georgian building of three storeys, likely dating to the 18th century. It is constructed with a stucco exterior, featuring end pilaster strips, a moulded eaves band, and a sill band on the first floor. The frontages are two windows wide facing Pier Street and three windows wide facing Eastgate. The roof is hipped and covered in slate, with a rubble chimney stack. The recessed sash windows are small-paned and have moulded architraves.
The building has an overall shop front with a ramped fascia. A shop window wraps around the corner, flanked by Ionic pilasters. Similar pilasters also frame the Pier Street entrance, which has panelled reveals, a six-panelled door, and a fanlight. A former entrance on Eastgate Street is now a shop window. The ground floor of the Eastgate Street frontage is partly rusticated.
At the rear, remnants of one of the enclosed courtyards that originally led off Eastgate can be seen. The interior is reported to contain interesting roof construction.
Local climate
The Welsh Cellar 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- 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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