Cliff Railway House is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. House.

Cliff Railway House

WRENN ID
frozen-barrel-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 November 1987
Type
House
Address
Cliff Railway House, Aberystwyth
OS grid reference
SN 583 825
Coordinates
52.4224, -4.08392
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Cliff Railway House is a two-storey building set into a slope. It features a four-window red brick front with painted dressings, a hipped slate roof, and brick chimney stacks on either side of a central cross gable that has a pediment. There is a datestone at the center, and pediments above the splayed one-window corners. A parapet with ball finials sits above the cornice and pilaster strips, which end just below the first-floor cornice. The windows are horned sash style with cills and keystones, and the ground floor has arched openings, with a broader central main entrance featuring panelled doors. The side elevations include both sash and casement windows, while the rear has sash windows with a central splayed bay.

The red brick walls rise along the stepped platforms of the lower station. Twin railway tracks are set into a cutting with concrete banks and diverge at a crossing point. Three out of four timber bridges are still intact. At the upper end, concrete walls lead to the stepped platforms, which connect to the upper station that has a corrugated roof and a boarded valence at the front.

Local climate

Cliff Railway House 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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