Church Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 November 1997. School. 2 related planning applications.

Church Hall

WRENN ID
small-floor-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 November 1997
Type
School
Address
Church Hall, Clarach, Aberystwyth, Tirymynach, SA31 2JG
OS grid reference
SN 604 841
Coordinates
52.4372, -4.05462
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This building is a single-storey church hall constructed from rock-faced squared rubble stone, featuring a yellow terracotta chevron-moulded cornice and red and yellow brick dressings. It has a steep hipped slate roof adorned with two bands of lozenge-cut slates, a galvanized roof-vent on the right, and a missing vent on the left. A yellow-brick chimney is centrally located on the ridge of the rear wing. The layout is T-shaped.

The south front includes a central gabled stone porch with a yellow-brick chevron-moulded verge and a moulded eaves cornice. There is a pointed 4-pane sash window with a yellow-brick band, and a slate plaque from 1795 set in the apex within a brick frame that has a brick sill-band. There is a ledged door on the east side wall and another pointed sash window on the west wall, with a brick band running around the building. A slate tablet inscribed with the following text is present: "This Free School endowed by Morris Jones Esq. and another gentleman from London in the year of our lord 1795. The ground and timber were given by Mrs Margaret Pryse of Gogerddan." The main schoolroom features paired pointed 4-pane sashes on either side of the porch, surrounded by red brick. The east and west ends also have similar paired pointed sashes. The rear north wing contains a pointed sash window on both the east and west walls, which are similar but smaller and have yellow brick dressings. There is also a rear stone and slated toilet block.

The interior consists of a single room plan with plastered ceilings and walls, a boarded dado, and part-exposed arched roof-trusses supported on corbels. A later 19th-century fire-grate is located in the center of the room, and the window-heads are flat on the inside.

Local climate

Church Hall 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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