Graystone is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 April 1992. House/shop.

Graystone

WRENN ID
over-merlon-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 April 1992
Type
House/shop
Address
Graystone, Cardigan
OS grid reference
SN 178 461
Coordinates
52.08345, -4.65971
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Graystone is a house and shop built from squared stone, featuring some banding in red brick and blue lias, with a slate roof and stone end stacks. The eastern stack is large and has five shafts with vertical incisions between them.

The building is three storeys high and has a three-window range, with a chamfered northwest corner and a southwest rear wing. It has a blue lias capped plinth and pairs of red brick bands between blue lias bands below the sill levels of the upper floors, as well as a blue lias eaves course. The windows are hornless sashes with flush blue lias sills and cambered heads, with six-pane upper windows and twelve-pane windows on the first floor. There is a matching one-window range at the northwest angle.

On the ground floor, there is a central arched doorway with a fine blue lias arched head and a radiating bar fanlight, leading to a two-panel door. There is a similar doorway at the northwest angle, but it lacks the original door and fanlight. Each side of the main door features a shop window; the left window is made of 20th-century plate glass, while the right window is a 19th-century four-light design with thin transoms and ogee pointed heads. The side piers have incised decoration, with brackets above framing the fascia and cornice.

The west end wall has a full-height basement with one broad window and a blocked ground floor window above it. The rear wing includes a stone end stack, a basement door and window, a first floor window, a stair light, and a second floor window, all featuring blue lias stone voussoirs.

Local climate

Graystone sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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