Grade 2* listed house first to be re-limed in Wales

Built around 1800, Brynymor House on the estuary in Cardigan is thought to be the first building in Wales to benefit from the knowledge that has become known as “The Lime Revival”

Sculptor and building conservator Rory Young (d. 2023) was a leading figure in the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) and the Building Limes Forum.  His investigations and interviews with elderly craftsmen and women in the early 1980s led Rory to choose lime as the fundamental material when he set about helping his mother and father repair their house later that decade.  This labour of love included the revival of the traditional lime roughcast finished, which has been found to be the most effective at coping with wind driven rain.  TLC re-roughcast and re-limewashed Brynymor House in 2016, preparing it for the next 225 years.