Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
19 Corporation Street
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1987
- Community
- Aberystwyth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.41586, -4.08510
- Cadw reference
- 10210
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
At the top of the street on the corner with Crynfryn Row, set into the slope beside the Public Library.
History
Shown on 1834 map.
Exterior
Pair of 3-storey and basement 2-window painted render fronts at a splayed angle to the street line. Steep pitched slate roofs, wide bracket eaves, brick chimney stacks and horned sash windows. Later 3-storey splayed bay windows with cornices and ornate relief panelled aprons. Open pedimented lintels with dropped corbel stops to right hand 1st floor windows over classical doorcases with fluted columns; modern brick base to No 21, eroded to No 19; panelled reveals, 4-panel door to No 19, modern to No 21. Small-pane sash windows to basement.
Roughcast left side. Rubble rear with brick voussoirs and sash windows with glazing bars.
Reason for designation
Included for group value.
Nearby in the register
- 21 Corporation StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Public LibraryRecreationalunder 1 mi
- English Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Unicorn Inn PHCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.