Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Victoria House The Alliance & Leicester Building Society
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
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
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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
- 12 Baker StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 10 Baker StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 8 Baker StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Baker StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.