Garden seat at foot of avenue to SW of back lawn at Trawsgoed House is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 2004. Garden seat. 2 related planning applications.
Garden seat at foot of avenue to SW of back lawn at Trawsgoed House
- WRENN ID
- roaming-sill-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 March 2004
- Type
- Garden seat
- Address
- Garden seat at foot of avenue to SW of back lawn at Trawsgoed House, Aberystwyth, SY23 4AT
- OS grid reference
- SN 668 729
- Coordinates
- 52.33835, -3.95514
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The garden seat located at the foot of the avenue to the southwest of the back lawn at Trawsgoed House is a curved bench made of ashlar stone. It features carved winged lion ends and is supported by a low centre pier that is intricately carved with acanthus leaves. The back of the bench has a curved design with a moulded cornice and finely carved mirrored acanthus scrolls on either side of a central lion-mask. The backrest is panelled with two long panels, each containing a moulded roundel in the centre and half-roundels at each end. The central roundel displays an armorial shield.
Local climate
Garden seat at foot of avenue to SW of back lawn at Trawsgoed House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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