12 Laura Place is a Grade II* listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 July 1961. House.

12 Laura Place

WRENN ID
slow-casement-weasel
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
21 July 1961
Type
House
Address
12 Laura Place, Aberystwyth
OS grid reference
SN 580 815
Coordinates
52.41372, -4.08806
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

12 Laura Place is a late Georgian building featuring two stories, an attic, and a basement, with a seven-window front made of scribed cement render. The hipped slate roof has wide bracket eaves and rubble chimney stacks. The building has slate-hung dormers, with two dormers having modern windows and one dormer at No 12 featuring twin horned sash windows. The ground floor has taller small pane sash windows, while the entrance to No 12 is offset to the right and includes a hooded Doric doorcase with fluted columns, panelled double doors, and an ogee traceried fanlight.

The left side of the building is also finished in cement render, and there is a similar doorcase with fluted pilasters at No 11. The rear is made of rubble and includes dormers and sash windows with glazing bars, along with a modern extension to No 12.

Inside, the interiors maintain many original details, particularly in No 12, which was the residential part of the house. The entrance hall features a bracket and paterae cornice, and a panelled soffit arch leads to an openwell staircase with a tall landing window. There are panelled shutters and doors, barley twist columns, and reeded pilasters around the firepieces, some of which have Gothick traceried firebacks. No 11 has fluted newel balusters.

Local climate

12 Laura Place 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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