Hawthorn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 September 1999. Cottage.

Hawthorn Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 September 1999
Type
Cottage
Address
Hawthorn Cottage, Hafod, Ystrad Meurig, Pontarfynach
OS grid reference
SN 762 734
Coordinates
52.34498, -3.81838
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Hawthorn Cottage is a two-storey double-fronted cottage with a single-storey wing to the east. It is constructed of rubble stone with blue brick detailing and features a slate roof with deep eaves. The cottage has blue brick gable chimney stacks and two-light casement windows with slightly cambered brick heads. The upper two windows break the eaves under deep dormer gables. The central door is boarded and has a similar head to the windows. The end walls have overhanging verges, and the west end displays the gable line and chimney of an earlier house.

The single-storey whitewashed wing to the right is set back from the main structure. The main part of the cottage has a boarded door situated between two small-paned casement-pair windows, with the facade offset to the left. The right section is set back and has higher eaves, featuring a plank door on the extreme left and a small window to the right. There are 20th-century skylights in the rear roof.

The main house has a two-room ground floor plan, with a kitchen on the left that includes a small iron range in the fireplace, a half-glazed cupboard to the left, and a right-hand door leading to a cupboard under the corner stair. The kitchen has a slate slab floor. To the right is a small parlour with a pantry located behind it. The single-storey wing has a simple raftered roof and a cobbled floor in the right end room.

Local climate

Hawthorn Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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