Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
5 Portland Street
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
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1987
- Community
- Aberystwyth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.41590, -4.08394
- Cadw reference
- 10370
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 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1941 · Aberystwyth. (Internet Archive)
Cadw's description
Location
At the lower end of a terrace leading from Terrace Road to Bethel Chapel, Nos 1 and 3 no longer of special interest.
History
Shown on 1834 map.
Exterior
Late Georgian with later alterations. Three-storey and basement, 2-window scribed render fronts with end and central moulded quoins, rusticated ground floor and 1st floor cill band. Slate roof, hipped to right end, wide bracket eaves and ridge tiling; red brick chimney stack. Small pane sash glazing, some renewed to No 5; 3-storey bays to left of each front with wide cornices and faceted aprons. Ornate (Jacobean) architraves to right hand 1st floor windows over plain classical doorcases with pilasters, modern door to No 5.
Interior
Railed basement wells, ornate barley twist banisters to No 7.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Cerdd Ystwyth MusicCommercialunder 1 mi
- Bethel Welsh Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- White Horse HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- KraxiCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.