Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. House.
Public Library
- WRENN ID
- knotted-loft-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Public Library, Aberystwyth
- OS grid reference
- SN 582 818
- Coordinates
- 52.416, -4.0852
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building is a public library, constructed in the Edwardian classical style. It features a steeply pedimented, two-storey facade with five bays, made of bull-nosed rubble and accented with red sandstone banding and dressings. The roof is slate, and there are red brick chimney stacks. The pediment is flanked by parapets that sit over an egg and dart bracket cornice and plain friezes.
The outer bays of the facade have part fluted Ionic columns in antis, with swaged capitals that frame recessed small pane windows, which include architraves, keystones, and cill bands. The middle windows have similar detailing but are taller, and there is a deep band course that rests on the keystones of the ground floor windows, which feature impost bonds. The entrance is offset to the right and includes a hood above a tripartite window, with Art Nouveau lettering over the panelled doorway.
Inside, the library retains a glazed tiled dado in the entrance hall and staircase, adorned with Art Nouveau foliage ornament. There are period leaded glass doorways and barley twist uprights leading to the staircase.
Local climate
Public Library 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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