No 3 The Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 November 1997. Croglofft cottage. 1 related planning application.
No 3 The Cross
- WRENN ID
- riven-ember-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1997
- Type
- Croglofft cottage
- Address
- No 3 The Cross, Clarach, Aberystwyth, Tirymynach, SY23 3DP
- OS grid reference
- SN 601 839
- Coordinates
- 52.43573, -4.05818
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
No 3 The Cross is a small, one and a half storey croglofft cottage dating from the 18th century. It features painted random-rubble walls and a roof covered with small slates, which has flush eaves. The cottage has a stone chimney at the left end, shared with No 4, and this chimney has deep flaunching above it. The front of the cottage has a boarded door that is slightly to the right of centre, with a wall-plate lintel above. To the left of the door is a 20th-century enlarged casement window, while to the right is a small 20th-century casement window set in an earlier opening.
Local climate
No 3 The Cross 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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