Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Penguin Café
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
- 52.41428, -4.08615
- Cadw reference
- 10347
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
Set into a terrace near the top of the street.
History
On ca 1790 map.
Exterior
Regency 3-storey and attic 2-window stucco front; slate roof, brick chimney stack and wide bracket eaves bowed out over paired 2 storey tripartite bow windows with small pane sash glazing and timber colonnettes; paired sash windows to attic. Modern shop front.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Manweb ElectricityCommercialunder 1 mi
- Kwik SaveCommercialunder 1 mi
- Les JonesCommercialunder 1 mi
- Cardigan HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.