Pencaer is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. Farmhouse.
Pencaer
- WRENN ID
- bitter-storey-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Pencaer, 2 Portland Street, Aberystwyth
- OS grid reference
- SN 583 817
- Coordinates
- 52.41521, -4.08447
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pencaer is a three-storey building with a basement and attic, featuring a one-window front made of scribed render. The front has part fluted and pilaster strips above a rusticated ground floor, and a cill band on the first floor. It has a slate roof with overhanging eaves and a brick chimney stack, along with horned sash windows. The building includes a three-storey splayed bay window adorned with cornices, valences, and ornamental panelled aprons. The attic has a segmental roof with a cornice and small-pane casement windows. The entrance showcases a classical doorcase with fluted columns, an entablature, and a six-panel door, with steps leading down to the basement.
The rear of the building is made of rubble and features small-pane sash windows beneath a pitched roof brick dormer.
Local climate
Pencaer 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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