Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pencaer
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
- 52.41519, -4.08446
- Cadw reference
- 10363
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Terraced at the top of the street near the crossroads, No 1 Alfred Place adjoins to left; stepped in the slope with iron railings to the front.
History
Shown on 1834 map.
Exterior
Three-storey basement and attic 1-window scribed render front with part fluted and pilaster strips over rusticated ground floor; first floor cill band. Slate roof, overhanging eaves and brick chimney stack; horned sash windows. Three-storey splayed bay window with cornices, valences and ornamental panelled aprons. Segmental roofed attic with cornice and small-pane casement windows. Classical doorcase with fluted columns, entablature and 6-panel door. Steps down to basement.
Rubble rear with small pane sash windows below pitched roof brick dormer.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Seion Welsh Congregational ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gateway Buildings No4Domesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Baker StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- MonabriDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.