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Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, designated on 24 November 1987.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1987
- Community
- Aberystwyth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.41467, -4.08556
- Cadw reference
- 10306
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
Cadw's description
Location
Short terrace between Howells, on the corner of Great Darkgate Street, and the Talbot Hotel.
History
No 6 is also the Masonic Hall and No 8 was formerly a tavern. Completed by 1832 when the street was opened.
Exterior
Later Georgian, with Victoria alterations to No 6, 3-storey, 2-window scribed stucco and render fronts with moulded rusticated quoins to No 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 with keystones and 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 pilasters to No 4 flank shop window with keeled colonnetes 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.
Nearby in the register
- Dudes & DamesCommercialunder 1 mi
- Talbot HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- G JonesCommercialunder 1 mi
- 7 Market StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.