Penguin Café is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. Café.
Penguin Café
- WRENN ID
- waiting-corner-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1987
- Type
- Café
- Address
- Penguin Café, 8 Pier Street, Aberystwyth
- OS grid reference
- SN 582 816
- Coordinates
- 52.4143, -4.08617
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Penguin Café is a three-storey building with an attic, dating from the Regency period. It features a two-window stucco front, a slate roof, and a brick chimney stack. The wide bracket eaves are curved over paired two-storey tripartite bow windows that have small pane sash glazing and timber colonnettes. There are paired sash windows in the attic. The building also has a modern shop front.
Local climate
Penguin Café 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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