Louvain is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1994. House.
Louvain
- WRENN ID
- shifting-stair-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- Louvain, 3 Spring Gardens, Church Street, New Quay, SA45 9NX
- OS grid reference
- SN 388 600
- Coordinates
- 52.21503, -4.35965
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Louvain is a terraced house built from exposed coursed rubble stone with a slated roof and rendered end stacks. It has two storeys and features a three-window range of original hornless 12-pane sash windows with slate sills and stone voussoirs. The centre of the house has an original six-panel door with an overlight and similar stone voussoirs. The flat eaves are supported by brackets. The house is not marked on the 1847 Tithe Map.
Local climate
Louvain sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
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