The Black Lion Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 April 1992. Hotel.

The Black Lion Hotel

WRENN ID
haunted-tracery-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 April 1992
Type
Hotel
Address
The Black Lion Hotel, Cardigan
OS grid reference
SN 177 460
Coordinates
52.08271, -4.66108
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Black Lion Hotel is a three-storey building constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring a stucco cornice and parapet, topped with a slate roof and brick end stacks. The façade has a five-window range of sash windows with cambered brick heads; the second floor has 6-pane windows, the first floor has 12-pane windows, and the ground floor has been altered with shallow 12-pane 20th-century bow windows. The central door is topped with a traceried overlight and is set within a 20th-century rebuilt timber classical porch supported by two untapered Roman Doric columns without bases. The porch includes pilaster responds and an entablature with triglyphs above the columns, finished with a flat cornice. There are two lead downpipes featuring embossed lions on the rainwater heads.

The rear of the building is constructed of stone and includes two rear wings; the southern wing is taller and has a truncated brick stack, while the northern wing features two brick corner stacks and an arch-headed gable window. The interior has been altered on the ground floor but retains one brick-arched fireplace at the south end.

Local climate

The Black Lion Hotel 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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