Former Church School is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 September 1997. House.
Former Church School
- WRENN ID
- western-buttress-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 September 1997
- Type
- House
- Address
- Former Church School, Bontgoch/Elerch, Aberystwyth, Ceulanamaesmawr
- OS grid reference
- SN 683 864
- Coordinates
- 52.46046, -3.93857
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former church school is built from squared rubble stone and features a steeply-pitched slate roof with a prominent timber bellcote at the west ridge. It has a rectangular one-room plan with a small projecting addition on the southwest side. The south side of the building has a large near-central side-wall stack with an external chimney-breast that has two steps in its upper part, which has been rendered. There are narrow single light windows on either side of the stack. The left addition includes a door at the angle and a window at the south end, with an original doorway present. The bellcote, located just in from the west end, is supported by moulded squat timber posts with brackets, holding a steep slated four-sided spirelet topped with an iron cross finial and containing the original bell. The west end has been rendered and features a plain rectangular large timber-mullioned window, which may have been altered. The east end showcases a tall pointed three-light window with timber tracery and stone voussoirs. The north side has a central gable above a large brick-framed cambered-headed window, which may be an addition. There is a lean-to on the right and an outbuilding on the left.
Inside, the roof is supported by six-sided rafters with one tie-beam and a king-post under the bellcote. The fireplace on the south wall has been blocked.
Local climate
Former Church School 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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