Hardware is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. House.
Hardware
- WRENN ID
- lunar-quartz-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hardware, 3 Bridge Street, Aberystwyth
- OS grid reference
- SN 582 816
- Coordinates
- 52.41398, -4.08603
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a four-storey rendered building located at the corner of Bridge Street and Great Darkgate Street, featuring three windows on both street facades and one window on the splayed corner. The hipped slate roof is concealed by a plain parapet, and there is a long brick chimney stack. The building has small pane sash windows. The shop front at No 1 is modern, while No 2 has a Victorian shop front with a bracket cornice and an ornate fascia at the left. There are Corinthian colonettes flanking the window and a half-glazed door. To the right of the Royale shop front, there is a panelled door leading to No 48 Great Darkgate Street.
Local climate
Hardware 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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