Cefnmabws is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 August 1996. House.

Cefnmabws

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 August 1996
Type
House
Address
Cefnmabws, Cwm Mabws, Llanrhystyd
OS grid reference
SN 570 684
Coordinates
52.29543, -4.09722
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Cefnmabws is a house with roughcast elevations and a slate roof, featuring tall rubble gable chimney stacks with stone tabling and drips, including a low corner stack at the rear left. The front of the house is three storeys high and has three bays, offset to the left. The central entrance consists of a 4-panel door with a marginally-glazed overlight, flanked by wide 16-pane horned sash windows. On the first floor, there are 12-pane horned sashes that are smaller and modified to the centre, while the second floor has a 6-pane window in the centre. The openings are surrounded by painted smooth render and have slate sills. To the right, there are two small 20th-century windows that light a later outshut. The rear outshut is two storeys high and features 20th-century glazing, except for an upper centre two-light 12-pane casement and a boarded door. There is a blocked attic light at the rubble left end.

Inside, the right-hand ground floor room has a wide fireplace with a boxed-in lintel and a modern grate, along with a cross-beam. A simple stick-baluster staircase leads to the upper floors. There is a six-panel door leading to the left room. The long outshut kitchen includes a bread oven that is served by the flue of the aforementioned fireplace.

Local climate

Cefnmabws sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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