Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Unicorn Inn PH
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1987
- Community
- Aberystwyth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.41591, -4.08475
- Cadw reference
- 10212
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 Alfred Place; set into the slope.
History
Late Georgian (not shown on 1834 map).
Exterior
2-storey and attic structure, with basement to Corporation Street; scribed whitewashed render elevations, with plinth, 3-window to Corporation Street and 2-window to Alfred Place with splayed corner. Slate roof, hipped to corner, wide overhanging eaves, probably raised. 2 slate roofed dormers rising through eaves to Corporation Street front and 1 similar dormer to Alfred Place; small pane metal casements. Small pane sash windows with cambered heads below; glazing bars removed to lower sashes to ground floor of Alfred Place front. Basement hatch and boarded doors. Splayed corner formerly with decorative panel (as on Victoria House) over entrance with bracketed cornice, canted pilasters and half-glazed door.
Boarded door to right gives access to part rendered and part rubble rear; small pane sash windows to 1st floor.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Roberts, Humphrey & Bott, Joseph Davies & SonCommercialunder 1 mi
- Brunswick HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Portland StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 19 Corporation StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.