Pen-y-pistyll Mawr is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 October 1997. House.

Pen-y-pistyll Mawr

WRENN ID
worn-eave-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 October 1997
Type
House
Address
Pen-y-pistyll Mawr, Penuwch, Tregaron, Llangeitho
OS grid reference
SN 598 621
Coordinates
52.23997, -4.05351
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pen-y-pistyll Mawr is a pair of houses likely built together, constructed from colourwashed rubble stone and topped with a slate roof featuring three whitewashed stone stacks. The larger house on the right is double-fronted, while the smaller house on the left has a two-window range. Both houses are two storeys high.

The right house has two upper six-pane windows, each with a single opening pane, and a ground floor right four-pane casement window, all set on stone sills. There is a centrally located ledged door, and on the ground floor left, there is a six-pane window with one opening pane and a slate sill.

The left house features two upper four-pane windows, each with one opening pane and stone sills, and a ground floor left horned four-pane sash window with a slate sill. The door is located to the right. All ground floor openings have timber lintels. The end walls are whitewashed, and there is no outshut. A small lean-to has been added to the right end wall.

Local climate

Pen-y-pistyll Mawr 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 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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