The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 September 1997. Vicarage. 1 related planning application.

The Old Vicarage

WRENN ID
haunted-cinder-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 September 1997
Type
Vicarage
Address
The Old Vicarage, Bontgoch/Elerch, Aberystwyth, Ceulanamaesmawr, SY24 5DP
OS grid reference
SN 683 864
Coordinates
52.45964, -3.93965
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old Vicarage is a Victorian building, likely dating to the 19th century, constructed of rubble stone with black brick dressings. It has a slate roof, with crested red ridge tiles, and a half-hipped north side. The first floor of the west garden front is whitewashed roughcast. Two brick stacks are present; one on the west roof slope with three shafts, another with two shafts, and a third roughcast stack at the north end, which may be an addition.

The building is a compact rectangular block with gables above the principal windows. Brick surrounds are used for the windows, except where the first floor is roughcast. These surrounds are ovolo-moulded, with cambered heads and flush stone sills. The east front exemplifies Victorian asymmetric functional design, with windows sized to suit the rooms they illuminate. A Gothic-style door is located towards the right, featuring ledges, ornate hinges, and a gabled slated hood. A long two-pane sash window lights a corner study, followed by three long two-pane sashes of varying widths. A cambered headed service door, ledged with strap hinges, and a large four-pane kitchen window are located to the left. The upper floor has two large four-pane windows under gables, one to the left and one to the right of centre, plus four small two-pane lights, one to the right and three between the main windows. The gables incorporate small brick apex loops. The north end has two four-pane sashes on each floor. The west garden front has roughcast to the first floor above a brick band. A large gable is located on the left, with a blank shield plaque, a four-pane sash, and a narrower four-pane sash. The centre and left have four-pane sashes under smaller gables with apex loops. The ground floor includes a pent roof on wooden brackets over a left French window, and a centre two-by-four-by-two-pane tripartite sash, and a blank wall to the right. The south end wall contains a large two-by-four-by-two-pane sash below and a four-pane sash above, both set to the left.

The interior is compactly planned, with two staircases: a main stair to the south of the front door and a service stair to the north of the service door. The main stair is constructed of pitch pine with simple Gothic rails, notched newels, and pyramid caps. A study, dining room, and drawing room are located off the hall. Pine six-panel doors are fitted with overlapped plank architraves, which are chamfered and have plain quatrefoils on the upper corners. The first floor follows a similar plan.

Local climate

The Old Vicarage 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 95% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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