Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
8 New Street
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
- 52.41449, -4.08680
- Cadw reference
- 10324
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
Complete terrace from the Aberystwyth Yesterday shop museum to the corner with Castle Street.
History
Shown on map of 1834.
Exterior
Victorian alterations to a late Georgian terrace; Nos 6,18 and 20 , 3-storey and (except No 6) basement 2-window render, mostly scribed, roughcast frontages. Nos 10 and 12 and 14 and 16 are reflected pairs; No 8 has additional window to altered ground floor. Slate roofs, wide bracket eaves and mainly rubble chimney stacks. Sash windows without glazing bars except to basements; 3-storey bay windows to Nos 10 to 20, No 6 has 2-storey oriel over tripartite ground floor window. Pilastered doorcases with cornice lintels to all except no 7; various panelled doors; doorcase to No 20 filled in by fixed glazed window and the entrance is in Castle Street through a similar doorcase. Rendered end wall with sash window to right.
Reason for designation
Included for group value.
Nearby in the register
- 6 New StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 10 New StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 12 New StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2&4 New StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.