Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Welsh Cellar
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
- 52.41470, -4.08619
- Cadw reference
- 10346
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
Corner sited at the junction with Eastgate.
History
Shown on 1809 map.
Exterior
Georgian 3-storey stucco elevations with end pilaster strips, moulded eaves band and 1st floor cill band. 2-window to Pier Street, 3-window to Eastgate. Hipped slate roof and rubble chimney stack. Moulded architraves to recessed small pane sash windows. Overall shop front with ramped fascia; shop window wraps around corner with Ionic pilasters to ends; similar pilasters flank Pier Street entrance to right, with panelled reveals, 6-panelled door and fanlight; former Eastgate entrance now a shop window. Ground floor of Eastgate Street front is part rusticated.
To the rear, remains of one of the ‘courts’ that led off Eastgate.
Interior
Interior said to retain interesting roof construction.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 38 EastgateCommercialunder 1 mi
- The WindsorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 36a EastgateCommercialunder 1 mi
- 36 EastgateCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.