Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Castle House
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
- 52.41493, -4.08764
- Cadw reference
- 10254
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
Short asymmetrical terrace at the corner with Castle Street close to the University Old College; No 7 stepped forward.
History
After 1834; Victorian alterations.
Exterior
No 5 has 3-storey, 2-window scribed render front with quoins, cill bands and rusticated ground floor and plinth. 2-storey and attic 2-window fronts to Nos 6 and 7, No 6 scribed cement render, No 7 roughcast with quoins and cill band; rusticated ground floors with plinths. Slate roofs, wide boarded eaves to No 5, and bracket eaves to Nos 6 and 7 with rubble chimney stacks. Slate hung dormers, swept roof to No 6 and pitched roof to No 7 with cusped bargeboards, pendant and finial. Sash windows, without glazing bars to Nos 5 and 7, small pane to No 6; 3-storey bay window to No 5 with panelled aprons, similar 2-storey bay window to No 7. Wide bracket cornices to doorcases, panelled reveals to Nos 5 and 6, reeded half-columns to No 7; panelled and half glazed doors.
Cusped bargeboards to right hand gable end in Castle Street with 2 sash windows. Cross range to rear of No 6.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 6 King StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- GerlanDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Laura PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- University of Aberystwyth Overseas UnitEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.