Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Talbot Hotel
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
- 52.41475, -4.08568
- Cadw reference
- 10307
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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
Terraced near the corner with Eastgate, stepped up from No 8.
History
The old Talbot Inn was demolished in 1830 and the new one completed by 1832 when the street was opened.
Exterior
Late Georgian broad 3-storey and attic 6-window scribed stucco front with rusticated quoins, rusticated ground floor and plinth. Slate roof, bracket eaves, rubble chimney stacks, heightened in stock brick; 2 slate hung dormers with ornate bargeboards and casement windows. Recessed small-pane sash glazing, mainly 12-pane. Broad doorcase offset to right with bracket cornice and iron railed veranda, panelled pilasters and outer doors; half-glazed inner doors. Tuscan doorcase to left, triglyph cornice blocked to front, panelled reveals and 6-panel door; shallow basement opening to left.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- A T Mays Travel AgentCommercialunder 1 mi
- 32 EastgateCommercialunder 1 mi
- 34 EastgateCommercialunder 1 mi
- Dudes & DamesCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.