Claerddu is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 July 2004. House.

Claerddu

WRENN ID
sunken-sill-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 July 2004
Type
House
Address
Claerddu, Ffair Rhos, Ystrad Meurig, Ystrad Fflur
OS grid reference
SN 792 686
Coordinates
52.3028, -3.7718
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Claerddu is a small house built from rubble stone, featuring a slate close-eaved roof and stone end stacks. It is one storey and has a loft, with a double-fronted design that is offset to the right. The front has two small renewed 4-pane horned sash windows on either side of the front door, with the left window being slightly larger than the right. The windows have stone slab sills and lintels. The front door is renewed and boarded, with a stone slab step leading up to it. The end walls each have a single small 4-pane sash window that lights the loft, and there is a 20th-century boarded lean-to addition on the northeast end to the right. At the rear of the house, there is a single ground floor window and a renewed 4-pane sash stair-light.

The interior has been renovated to serve as a mountain bothy. Downstairs, there is a small benched seating area in the parlour on the right and a dining/kitchen area on the left, which features a brick chimney breast, a range, and a bread-oven. A timber staircase is located in the center of the house. The first floor contains two rooms.

Local climate

Claerddu sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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