Llanwnnen Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 December 1996. A Early C20 Post office.

Llanwnnen Post Office

WRENN ID
gentle-sandstone-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 December 1996
Type
Post office
Address
Llanwnnen Post Office, Lampeter
OS grid reference
SN 532 472
Coordinates
52.10374, -4.14343
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Llanwnnen Post Office is a two-storey building with a whitewashed roughcast exterior and a hipped slate roof. The roof features flat eaves and is chamfered at the southeast angle. The main east front has three windows, while the narrow chamfered-off southeast angle and the two-bay south side add to its character. The windows are 12-pane hornless sashes, and the building has a stucco plinth, a band between the floors, and an angle strip on the north end.

The east front includes a flat-roofed porch at the center, which has double half-glazed doors and an overlight, flanked by roughcast piers with stucco caps and plinths. Narrow windows are present in the side walls. Early 20th-century photographs indicate that there was once a slate hipped porch supported by two timber chamfered posts. To the right of the porch is a 12-pane sash window, and to the left is a large square 20-pane shop window. The north end of the building is windowless, while the chamfered southeast angle displays the name "Llanwnen Post Office" in raised letters on the ground floor, with a 12-pane sash window above.

On the south side, there is a roughcast flat porch, which previously had a hipped slate roof, featuring double doors to the right. The center has a similar 20-pane shop window, and to the left, there is a post-box set into an infilled window, with a 12-pane sash window above it. The left angle also has a similar angle strip.

Local climate

Llanwnnen Post Office 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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