Old Black Lion Hotel

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 Old Black Lion Hotel, 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: 52.41350, -4.08551
Cadw reference: 10205

TodayHistorical map

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in Cadw's own full report ↗

Cadw's description

Location

Set back from No 14 behind cobbled pavement.

History

Ca 1700 origins and Georgian refronting.

Exterior

3-storey, 3-window scribed render front with rusticated ground floor and plinth. Slate roof, bracket eaves and rubble chimney stack; recessed small pane sash windows, some horned. Slightly off-centre entrance with barley twist piers, wide cornice and boarded doors.

Formerly incorporated cross range to right, now No 18.

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

All Commercial in Ceredigion All Unitary authority Ceredigion records All Wales Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)

See your own family's places on a living map