Islwyn and front railings is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 October 2003. House.

Islwyn and front railings

WRENN ID
secret-step-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
27 October 2003
Type
House
Address
Islwyn and front railings, Llanilar
OS grid reference
SN 623 750
Coordinates
52.35611, -4.02244
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Islwyn is the left house of a pair, with Llwyn to the right. Both houses are built from squared coursed rubble stone and feature a slate close-eaved roof with two pale brick chimneys, one on the left side of each house. The overall structure has five windows, with Islwyn having two windows and Llwyn having three, although Llwyn may have originally been a matching two-bay house with a third bay added later. The windows are four-pane sashes with tooled stone voussoirs and slate sills. The doors have been replaced; Islwyn has a door in the second bay from the left with an overlight, while Llwyn has a door in the fourth bay, positioned similarly to Islwyn's door but without an overlight. The right bay of Llwyn, adjacent to Glanadair, is narrower and features a broad cart entry with a cambered head and stone voussoirs, along with a matching sash window above it. In front of the houses, there are railings on low walls, adorned with fleur-de-lys finials on the standards and urns on the end standards. The property was not inspected at the time of the survey.

Local climate

Islwyn and front railings 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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