Abermagwr, former shop, and walls with railings is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 2004. A Late C19 Shop, house.

Abermagwr, former shop, and walls with railings

WRENN ID
other-hinge-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 March 2004
Type
Shop, house
Period
Late C19
Address
Abermagwr, former shop, and walls with railings, Trawsgoed
OS grid reference
SN 664 739
Coordinates
52.34692, -3.96129
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Abermagwr is a former shop and pair of houses that have been combined into one building. It is constructed from rubble stone and features slate roofs. The earlier house on the left has large roughcast end stacks topped with added yellow brick caps. It stands two storeys high and has a three-window arrangement of 4-pane sash windows. The left ground floor window is wider and has yellow brick jambs, suggesting it was inserted into a former shop window before a late 19th-century photograph was taken. The building includes stone voussoirs and slate sills, with a central 20th-century panelled door that has an overlight. The left end wall features bargeboards on the gable and a ground floor window in a yellow-brick surround.

To the right is the added shop, built from coursed squared rubble with yellow brick dressings, which has a roof at the same ridge height and is hipped to the right. It also has a small yellow brick chimney at the right end. The shop has a two-storey, three-window front with 4-pane sashes set in yellow brick surrounds, featuring cambered heads, rusticated sides, and slate sills. There are narrow sashes in the right bay and broader sashes in the ground floor left and centre, which flank the shop door. Yellow brick piers separate the door from each window, and the entrance has double doors with an overlight.

The front garden of the house and the courtyard of the shop are enclosed by rubble stone walls on each side, with low iron railings on painted rendered low walls with slate copings at the front and between the two buildings. The railings have moulded cast-iron heads, and the stanchions are topped with urn finials.

Inside, the shop retains a remarkably intact late 19th-century general store layout, complete with counters, shelves, and drawers on three sides.

Local climate

Abermagwr, former shop, and walls with railings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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