Bryn Hyfryd is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 July 2004. House.

Bryn Hyfryd

WRENN ID
pale-gutter-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 July 2004
Type
House
Address
Bryn Hyfryd, Tynygraig, Ystrad Meurig
OS grid reference
SN 689 681
Coordinates
52.29588, -3.92242
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bryn Hyfryd is a house that was formerly a vicarage, built from rubble stone with a slate roof featuring paired brackets at the eaves, overhanging gable verges, and stuccoed end stacks. The building is two stories high and has a three-window range with large sixteen-pane sash windows. The central doorway has one slate-covered stone step leading up to it and features a six-panel door, with the upper four panels being fielded and a lattice-pattern overlight above. The window sills are made of cut slate, and there are brick voussoirs over the openings.

There is a hipped veranda with a boarded soffit, supported by four plain thin iron columns. The left gable end of the house is whitewashed and has a 9-pane sash window on the first floor to the left, above a twelve-pane sash window with a slightly cambered brick head. The rear of the house is rendered and has a twelve-pane sash window on each floor to the left.

To the rear right, there is a low service wing with an attic, which is also whitewashed rubble with a slate roof and a stone end stack topped by a later brick stack. A rear lean-to extends slightly forward of the left end wall of the main house. The front of the lean-to has a doorway in the angle to the main house and a 9-pane sash window to the right, with stone voussoirs above. The gable end features a four-pane casement at attic height to the left and a nine-pane casement in the end wall of the lean-to addition, which was formerly a doorway. The lean-to has a rear 12-pane center window, and there is a 20th-century dormer in the rear roof.

Entering through the rear door into the service wing reveals a flagged floor and a board partition that creates a small lobby, along with a boarded ceiling supported by joists of pine scantling. The main part of the house has six-panelled doors throughout, a tiled hallway with a dogleg stair that is boarded below and features stick balusters. At the top of the stairs, there is an elliptical arch resting on pilasters.

Local climate

Bryn Hyfryd sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 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 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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