The Bell Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 August 2024. Tower. 2 related planning applications.
The Bell Tower
- WRENN ID
- graven-frieze-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 August 2024
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- The Bell Tower, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Llanbadarn Fawr, SY23 3BU
- OS grid reference
- SN 597 817
- Coordinates
- 52.41531, -4.06335
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Bell Tower is a Grade II listed structure featuring a slimline concrete chimney shaft that rises from the piazza concourse. It is taller than both the Great Hall and the Hugh Owen Library, making it visible from much of the Penglais Campus. The inner cuboid shaft is open to the west and is clad in dark aggregate panels. The top of the shaft is angled and cut off, sloping from east to west. Surrounding this are lighter gravel aggregate panels that match those of the nearby buildings, with open seams at the northeast and southeast corners. This lighter sheathing stops a few meters short of the top and has an opposed angled cut off on the north and south sides, sloping from west down to east. There are narrow vertical openings on these two sides, which are linked by a single pale panel above that holds an iron bell suspended from it. At the base of the chimney, there are wooden benches that were added later.
Local climate
The Bell Tower 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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