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Bay Hotel (nos 35-37consec)

Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, designated on 24 November 1987.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Bay Hotel (nos 35-37consec), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Commercial
Date of designation
24 November 1987
Community
Aberystwyth
Unitary authority
Ceredigion
Country
Wales
Coordinates
52.41758, -4.08405
Cadw reference
10287

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1899 · 163 Aberystwyth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1941 · Aberystwyth. (Internet Archive)

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Cadw's description

Midway along the Promenade; detached to right-end.

Shown on 1834 map. Earlier C19 with Victorian alterations.

Asymmetrical 3-storey, basement and attic 2+3+3-window roughcast front with channelled, part-rusticated ground floor; pilaster strips and 1st floor cill band to outer bays. Slate roof, rubble chimney stacks and wide bracket eaves. Pitched roof dormers, some slate hung, with bargeboards. Sash and casement windows to attic, horned sash windows below. Full height bay windows except to central and right hand entrance bays which have architraves, one central window blocked. Half glazed door entrances; half glazed porch to left.

Cement render right side, boarded door leads to side passage. Small pane sash windows to rear and modern brick cross range.

Some contemporary detail retained inside.

Group value.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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