Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
G Jones
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
- 52.41456, -4.08543
- Cadw reference
- 10304
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 terrace between Howells, on the corner of Great Darkgate Street, and the Talbot Hotel. No 6 is also the Masonic Hall and No 8 was formerly a tavern.
History
Completed by 1832 when the street was opened. Later Georgian.
Exterior
[NOTE Number 6 (A T Mays Travel Agent Recno 10306) was delisted on 17/02/1988]
With Victorian alterations to No 6, 3-storey, 2-window scribed stucco and render fronts with moulded rusticated quoins to Nos 6. Slate roofs, bracket eaves and brick chimney stacks. Small-pane sash windows to Nos 4 and 8, with architraves to No 4. Ornate architraves wit keystones ands bracketed cills to No 6 with horned sash windows without glazing bars; central panel reads "Masonic Hall" with square and compass. Victorian shop fronts to Nos 4 and 6; plain pilaster to No 4 flank shop window with keeled colonnettes and splayed entrance with half glazed door, modern door to right; unusual bracketed end pieces to No 6 over faceted pilasters, modern fascia, 6-panel door and 4-right shop window with large Gothic colonnetes. Modern shop front to
No 8.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Dudes & DamesCommercialunder 1 mi
- HowellsCommercialunder 1 mi
- A T Mays Travel AgentCommercialunder 1 mi
- 1 Market StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.