Edward Richard Old Grammar School is a Grade II* listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 December 1963. School.

Edward Richard Old Grammar School

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 December 1963
Type
School
Address
Edward Richard Old Grammar School, Ystrad Meurig, Aberystwyth
OS grid reference
SN 703 676
Coordinates
52.29184, -3.90214
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Edward Richard Old Grammar School is a single-storey school building constructed from stone, featuring unpainted render on the front and left side, and a slate roof. It has rendered end chimneys, with the left one being small. On the right side, there are three large Gothic windows, which have earlier 20th-century small-pane glazing over paired square casements, and a plinth course below. The left end wall has two horned sash windows, while the right end displays exposed rubble stone.

At the rear, there is a later parallel block built from matching stone. To the front left, there is a lower early 20th-century rendered library block that projects and has a hipped slate roof. This block is divided into three bays by raised wall-piers: the front (east) has two horned 8-pane sash windows, while the third bay is obscured by a porch. The rear (west) side has three sash windows. There is a flat-roofed rendered porch at the angle, which features a panelled door at the front and a horned sash window on the right side.

Inside, the large schoolroom has a boarded ceiling and two high blocked windows in the rear wall, along with a doorway that has deep splays and a boarded dado. To the left, there is an early 19th-century wooden stair leading to a gallery and a former sleeping room, which has two later windows added to the rear. Adjacent to the stair, in the rear wall, there is a blocked Gothic window with a small modern window opening.

Local climate

Edward Richard Old Grammar School 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 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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