Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Crynfryn House - Unemployment Benefit Office
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
- 52.41533, -4.08544
- Cadw reference
- 10213
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 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the adjoining houses, behind paved forecourt with iron railings and ornate openwork gate piers.
History
Once the town house of the Bonsall family of Ffronfraith; became a hospital after Sir Thomas Bonsall's death in 1821. C18 origins to L-plan structure.
Exterior
2-storey attic and basement scribed render 3-bay front with mainly ca 1900 detail; steep slate roof. Broad cross gable with pediment treatment and pendant; 4 pane attic roundel. Horned sash windows to 1st floor in square recesses to outer bays, arched headed recess to centre over entrance with console bracketed cornice on raised ground floor; modern door. 2-storey splayed bay windows with patterned slate lean-to roofs and ironwork window box holders over cornices; horned sash glazing and top ventilators. Some small pane sash windows to rendered rear. Modernisation for office use has removed most of the interior detail, main staircase is retained.
Nearby in the register
- 18 EastgateCommercialunder 1 mi
- 16 EastgateCommercialunder 1 mi
- 14 EastgateCommercialunder 1 mi
- 12 EastgateCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.