Plas Wigwam is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2005. House.
Plas Wigwam
- WRENN ID
- patient-terrace-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2005
- Type
- House
- Address
- Plas Wigwam, Cwmsymlog, Aberystwyth, Trefeurig
- OS grid reference
- SN 698 837
- Coordinates
- 52.43623, -3.91554
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Plas Wigwam is a house built of painted roughcast with a slate roof that has deep eaves and brick stacks at each end. It is two storeys tall and features three widely spaced bays, with an outshut at the rear. The gable ends have overhanging verges that reveal visible purlin ends. The front of the house has large 16-pane hornless sash windows with slate sills, and a central door. In front of the half-glazed panelled door, which has marginal glazing bars and a 5-pane overlight, there are slate slabs. Above the overlight, there are three square wooden panels. The door is set within a flat-roofed porch that has two elongated Roman Doric columns, each attached to the roughcast side wall. The flat roof features low wrought iron rails with scrolled cresting.
On the right end wall, there is a 16-pane hornless sash window in the centre of the ground floor, and a 2-pane horned sash window to the right of it. The left end of the house is slate hung and has a single-pane fixed window located to the ground floor left of centre. The rear of the house has mostly two 20th-century windows on the first floor left, a long 8-pane sash window that lights the stairs, and a 20th-century window to the right. There is also a 20th-century glazed door on the ground floor left, a 2-pane horned sash window, a flat-roofed single-storey addition below the stair window, and a hipped roof addition to the right.
Inside, the entrance hall has principal rooms on either side and stairs leading to the rear. The front windows on the ground floor have panelled reveals and shutters. In the right-hand drawing room, there is a cupboard to the right of the fireplace, and the window reveals are canted and panelled. It is said that there was once a fireplace on the left side of the entrance hall. Slate steps lead down into a flagged kitchen.
Local climate
Plas Wigwam sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
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