Old Court House is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 June 1998. Public house.

Old Court House

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 June 1998
Type
Public house
Address
Old Court House, Penrhiwpal, Troedyraur
OS grid reference
SN 347 458
Coordinates
52.08628, -4.41331
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old Court House is a two-storey building dating from the 19th century. It features a three-window front made of painted rubble and has a slate roof with brick end chimneys, one larger than the other. The upper floor has three squarish four-pane horned sash windows, while the central entrance has a boarded door flanked by rectangular overlights and four-pane hornless sashes. To the left, there is a lower single-storey block constructed with similar materials, also with a slate roof and a brick chimney on the left side. This block includes a large sash window to the left and a panelled door with an overlight to the right, supported by a hood on wooden brackets. The main block has an outshut at the rear, and the lower block features an unusual semi-circular rear extension with two blocked windows and a corrugated roof.

Inside, the building has 19th-century joinery details, but the hewn and pegged roof trusses may suggest an earlier construction date. The main block retains the character of a public house, with a principal parlour and servery located next to the entrance hall and stairwell. There are matchboard partitions with hatches and windows, and a wooden stair. To the left, a room is fitted out as a shop, with wooden shelves and arcading above that separate the semi-circular room, which has plastered walls and two blocked windows, along with wooden counters.

Local climate

Old Court House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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