Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rock 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
- 52.41541, -4.08697
- Cadw reference
- 10268
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
Advanced at the S end of the terrace on the corner with Pier Street, set into the slope.
History
Originates from the initial Promenade development at the start of the C19; shown on 1809 map. Victorian alterations, primarily the addition of splayed bay windows said to be the result of the Council’s lease renewal conditions ca.1900.
Exterior
Front elevations are to N and S No 2 in Pier Street, No 3 facing along Marine Terrace. 4-storey elevations except to Pier Street which is 3-storey and basement; painted cement render to NO 3, stucco to No 2; channelled and pilaster strips cill bands and rusticated ground floor. Slate roofs, rubble chimney stack and boxed eaves; horned sash glazing. 3-window symmetrical front to No 3 with outer bay windows and central windows with architraves only to 1st and 2nd floors; splayed half glazed porch to right ? cornice. Similar 2-window side elevation with bay to the right and blocked 1st and 2nd floor openings with architraves to left over modern entrance.
Symmetrical 3-window Marine Terrace front of No 2 with dividing pilaster strips. Similar windows and central oriel bracketed over ground floor, boarded door to right. Ground floor set back behind rising railed pavement with barley twist uprights. Offset 2-window Pier Street elevation with dividing pilaster strips. Architraves to windows, one blocked to 2nd floor; fine Doric doorcase to right with cornice carried on fluted columns, half glazed door and lettered fanlight.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 3 Marine TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Marine TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Coleg CorfaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Courtyard to rear of No 4 Marine TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.