Victoria House The Alliance & Leicester Building Society

Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, designated on 21 July 1961.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Victoria House The Alliance & Leicester Building Society, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, with a pin at the register's coordinates — Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation: Listed building, Grade II
Broad class: Commercial
Date of designation: 21 July 1961
Community: Aberystwyth
Unitary authority: Ceredigion
Country: Wales
Coordinates: 52.41555, -4.08449
Cadw reference: 10187

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1899 · 163 Aberystwyth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1941 · Aberystwyth. (Internet Archive)

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Cadw's description

Location

Set into the slope on the corner with Eastgate, opposite the Bethel Baptist Chapel; on the line of the old town wall.

History

Known as the Victoria Tavern until 1910. Building shown on the site on map of ca 1790. Probably early to mid C19.

Exterior

Georgian 3-storey 2-window scribed stucco front with plinth; modern corrugated tile roof, wide bracket eaves and cement render chimney stacks. Small-pane sash windows with later hoodmoulds and stops; right hand ground floor window has no ornament. Splayed oriel to 1st floor right with moulded cornice; central Georgian doorcase with wide cornice and broad reeded pilasters, panelled reveals and modern door. Splayed corner to right with figurehead of Queen Victoria carrying orb and sceptre on bracketed ledge over decorative panel.

Similar 2-window Eastgate elevation with stepped up plinth; splayed oriel to left.

Reason for designation

Group value.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0

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