Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pier & Pavilion
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
- Maritime
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1987
- Community
- Aberystwyth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.41573, -4.08769
- Cadw reference
- 10315
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
Facing NW opposite the end of Pier Street.
History
Pier, 800 ft long, built by Eugenius Birch of London in 1865 for Aberystwyth Pier Company, damaged by storm the following year; rebuilt 1872 by Szlumper and Aldwinckle. Pavilion and substructure by G croydon Marks of London in 1896 at a cost of £8,000 constructed by Bourne Engineering and Electrical Company; Pier truncated in 1938 by storm damage.
Exterior
Pier and Pavilion erected on a 14-day substructure with cast-iron piles made at Greens Foundry; narrow pier to seaward end; boarded sides to pavilion. Aisled to landward end with pointed clerestory windows; leaded roofs, tunnel vaulted high roof with plinth ridge and cresting. 2-storey to NW end with tunnel roof. Small-pane sash windows to SW side, several blocked; some similar tripartite windows to NE side. Pavilion entered from the promenade through gated forecourt, commercialized alterations to front. Triple arched entrance to amusement arcade below large petal pattern fanlight lighting pavilion hall, the interior of which retains cast-iron arcades, foliated capitals and transverse and longitudinal lattice work girders.
Reason for designation
Group Value.
Nearby in the register
- The United Theological CollegeEducationunder 1 mi
- University of Aberystwyth, Student Health CentreHealth and Welfareunder 1 mi
- Rock HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- University of Aberystwyth Overseas UnitEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.