Parcau is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 May 1996. House.
Parcau
- WRENN ID
- noble-rafter-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1996
- Type
- House
- Address
- Parcau, Cilcennin, Ciliau Aeron
- OS grid reference
- SN 539 611
- Coordinates
- 52.22915, -4.13945
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Parcau is a main house with a rendered one and a half storey front, accompanied by a cottage or cowshed that features a painted rubble front. The roofs are covered with slate, laid in diminishing courses, and there are rubble end chimney stacks on the main house topped with slate tabling. The house has a three bay front that is offset to the left, with two single pane attic windows that rise to the eaves. The ground floor has late 19th century sash windows, originally designed with six panes, though the upper glazing bars have been removed, and there are no sills. A gabled porch has been added to the center, featuring a boarded inner door. To the left, there are single storey 20th century additions with corrugated roofs.
To the right is a former second cottage that also has a three bay front, offset to the left. It features a central boarded door, with an early 20th century four-pane window to the left and a six-pane window to the right, both with stone voussoired heads. There is a wooden lean-to against the right end of this cottage.
Inside the main house, there is a boarded door leading to the left room, which has thin sawn joists and a modern fireplace. The former cottage has a collar-truss roof and a channeled flue in the right-hand wall, indicating the presence of a former hooded fireplace.
Local climate
Parcau 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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