Crynfryn House - Unemployment Benefit Office is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. Public house.
Crynfryn House - Unemployment Benefit Office
- WRENN ID
- first-footing-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Crynfryn House - Unemployment Benefit Office, 17 Eastgate Street, Aberystwyth, SY23 2AR
- OS grid reference
- SN 582 817
- Coordinates
- 52.41535, -4.08545
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Crynfryn House, originally an unemployment benefit office, is a two-storey building with an attic and basement, featuring scribed render on its three-bay front, primarily designed around 1900. It has a steep slate roof and a broad cross gable adorned with a pediment and pendant, along with a four-pane roundel in the attic. The first floor has horned sash windows set in square recesses on the outer bays, while the centre features an arched-headed recess above the entrance, which has a console bracketed cornice on the raised ground floor and a modern door. The building also includes two-storey splayed bay windows topped with patterned slate lean-to roofs and ironwork window box holders above the cornices, as well as horned sash glazing with top ventilators. The rear of the building has some small pane sash windows. Modernisation for office use has removed much of the interior detail, although the main staircase has been retained.
Local climate
Crynfryn House - Unemployment Benefit Office 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
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