Hafod House is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 December 2004. House.

Hafod House

WRENN ID
quiet-mantel-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
23 December 2004
Type
House
Address
Hafod House, Pontrhydygroes, Ystrad Meurig, Ysbyty Ystwyth
OS grid reference
SN 741 727
Coordinates
52.3388, -3.8485
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Hafod House is the right house of a semi-detached pair with Ystwyth Villa, built from rubble stone with cut grey stone dressings and deep-eaved slate roofs. It is two storeys high and has a four-window range overall. The pair are mirrored, each featuring an advanced outer gabled crosswing and a one-window range with a gabled oriel in the inner bay. There are three large cut-stone chimneys with conjoined square shafts on the main ridge, a four-shaft chimney at the centre between the houses, and a two-shaft stack on each house at the joint of the crosswing and main ridge, aligned with the main ridge.

The crosswing has quoins, plain bargeboards, and a triple casement window on each floor, with grey stone quoins and voussoirs. The inner bay has a similar pair of casement windows under a slightly projected oriel, which features a casement pair beneath a small eaves-breaking timber gable with matching bargeboards and a lozenge-and-triangle pattern in raised strips in the gable.

The sides of the crosswing are relatively short, with two bays and a large gabled porch in the rearmost bay. The door is located on the side facing the road, with a casement pair on both the porch end wall and the ground floor window adjoining the porch. The upper windows are blank. The porch features similar grey stone quoins and frames around the window and door, and all windows have slate sills.

On Hafod House, the crosswing has two blank windows on the first floor of the side, a renewed window on the ground floor to the left, and the crosswing has been extended back by one bay, with similar windows but rendered walling. This extension may conceal a rear wing similar to that on Ystwyth Villa.

Local climate

Hafod House 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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