BlaenTowyn and Towyn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1994. Cottages.

BlaenTowyn and Towyn Cottage

WRENN ID
rusted-pewter-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 1994
Type
Cottages
Address
BlaenTowyn and Towyn Cottage, New Quay
OS grid reference
SN 383 594
Coordinates
52.20989, -4.36786
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

BlaenTowyn and Towyn Cottage are a pair of single-storey cottages featuring slate roofs and end-wall stacks. Each cottage is double-fronted and has 12-pane sash windows on either side of a ledged door with an overlight above. The cottages have slate sills; BlaenTowyn is whitewashed, including its stacks, while Towyn Cottage has a roughcast exterior with a painted brick stack at the right end.

Local climate

BlaenTowyn and Towyn Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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