Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Regent House
Aberaeron, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 28 September 1961
- Town
- Aberaeron
- Community
- Aberaeron
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.24313, -4.25773
- Cadw reference
- 10055
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Symmetrical terrace situated between Regent Street and Oxford Street.
History
Mid C19 (after ca 1845).
Exterior
Simple classical roughcast and scribed rendered 2-storey, 3-window fronts with rusticated quoins. Advanced hipped roof end pavilions; slate roofs, wide boarded eaves, 7 cement render chimney stacks. 12-pane sash windows, 16-pane to ground floors of Nos 1 and 5; first floor windows with lugged architraves, those to ground floor set in segmental arched recesses; ornamental keystones to all. No glazing bars to No 6 ground floor left window (Talbot house Hair Fashions), shop front (Coco) to right. Open pedimented doorcase to Nos 1 and 6 (with flagpole to No 1). Arched entrances, with architraves and keystones to Nos 2 and 5; recessed doors, 6-panel with 6-pane fanlight to No 1, later door to No 2, 3-panel and 5-pane fanlight to No 3, 8-panel to No4, 6-panel to No 5, 8-panel with 6-pane fanlight and panelled reveals to No 6, further 4-panel door to right.
Scribed rendered left side to No 1 with 2 sash windows, extensions to the rear are not of special interest; roughcast right side to No 6 with 2 sash windows.
Interior
Interior of No 1 converted to offices.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 2 North RoadCommercialunder 1 mi
- 8 Alban SquareCommercialunder 1 mi
- 3 North RoadCommercialunder 1 mi
- Midland Bank including No9 Alban SquareCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.