Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Westminster House
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, designated on 21 July 1961.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 21 July 1961
- Community
- Aberystwyth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.41289, -4.08569
- Cadw reference
- 10194
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
Cadw's description
Location
Midway down the street, stepped up from the adjoining properties.
History
Shown on ca. 1790 map.
Exterior
Once the town house of the Pugh family of Henblas.
Terraced Georgian 2-storey and basement 4-window coursed rubble front without stucco rendering; slate roof, wide bracket eaves and brick chimney stacks. Voussoir lintels to 9 and 12 pane sash windows. Offset robust Ionic porch with plain entablature, egg and dart cornice and high ornamental parapet with painted lettering reading "Westminster"; panelled reveals, half glazed doors with traceried fanlight. Sash windows to basement. Slate hung left gable end.
Regency detail retained to staircase and entrance hall with arch on paired columns; stained glass window to rear.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- The Old Bank HouseEducationunder 1 mi
- CeredigionDomesticunder 1 mi
- 45 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 47 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.