The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 December 1988. Post office. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Post Office

WRENN ID
fallen-lintel-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
6 December 1988
Type
Post office
Address
The Old Post Office, Capel Dewi, Llandysul, SA44 4PH
OS grid reference
SN 452 425
Coordinates
52.05936, -4.25809
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building that has been converted into a single property. It is constructed from whitewashed rubble stone and features slate roofs with two ridge stacks. The building is two storeys high and has an L-shaped plan, with a short lofted wing that was once a bakery, projecting forward to the road edge at the eastern end. The main range has four windows, while the wing has a one-window return, and all appear to be from the same period.

The wing has an unpainted gable end with loading doors and an iron pulley wheel above. The return features a 12-pane sash window above double doors that lead to the former bakery. The main range includes the former Post Office on the left, which has a 12-pane sash window over a double-fronted shop with central double doors and an overlight situated between two-pane shop windows. The doorcase and outer window jambs are made of timber and feature brackets supporting an overall cornice. A King George VI letter box is incorporated into one of the windows.

To the right of the main entrance, there is a three-window range between the stacks, which has similar 12-pane sashes and a door located between the ground floor windows. This door is a two-panel design with an overlight. The spacing of the windows to the right of the door is wider. All windows have distinctive moulded timber fronts to their sills. At the western end, there is a late 19th-century addition made of unpainted rubble stone, featuring a two-window range with late glass sashes.

The property is set back from the road with a terraced forecourt, which includes a rubble retaining wall and stone steps leading up to the entrance.

Local climate

The Old Post Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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