Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carpenter Hall (nos 38-42consec)
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
- 52.41789, -4.08399
- Cadw reference
- 10288
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
Midway along the Promenade, between the Bay Hotel and No 43.
History
Shown on 1834 map.
Exterior
Mixed stucco frontage to structure with Georgian origins and Victorian and Edwardian alterations. Three-storey, basement and attic ranges flank taller 4-storey 2-window range, 5-window to left and 4-window to right. Rusticated pilasters and channelled ground floor to left, rusticated ground floor to centre and right, end pilaster strips and decorative first floor cill band. Slate roofs, bracket eaves, rubble and brick chimney stacks. Pitched roof dormer windows with mainly sash glazing. Left-hand range has alternate full height splayed bay windows with cornices, and sash windows (several blocked) with architraves. Central range has paired 4-storey bay windows, horned sash glazing with small pane upper sashes to double doors and fine traceried fanlight. Small pane sash windows to basement. Right-hand range has full height splayed bay windows to each bay with cornices and aprons of swagged plaster panels. Timber half-glazed porches with double doors to second and fourth bays, sash windows to basement.
Small pane sash windows to rubble rear with brick cross range.
Interior
Interior retains contemporary detail; barley twist columns carry arch to stairwell, moulded tread ends, acanthus cornices and bolection moulded doorcases.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 43 Marine TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bay Hotel (nos 35-37consec)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Including Richmond HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Royal Commission on Ancient & Historical Monuments in WalesCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.