Abbey National Building Society is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. Bank. 6 related planning applications.
Abbey National Building Society
- WRENN ID
- sharp-turret-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1987
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Abbey National Building Society, 1 Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, MK9 2JE
- OS grid reference
- SN 583 817
- Coordinates
- 52.41512, -4.08375
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Abbey National Building Society is a Georgian building that stands three stories tall and features a two-window rendered front with brace plates on the left side. It has a slate roof and wide bracket eaves. The building includes small pane sash windows and a modern shop front that wraps around the splayed corner. The elevation facing Baker Street has a plinth, an added attic store, and a blank wall space to the left. There are sash windows on the first and second floors, while the ground floor has modern windows. To the right, there is a lower, similarly modernized one-window extension that terminates at the gable end.
Local climate
Abbey National Building Society 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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