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49 Portland Street

Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, designated on 24 November 1987.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of 49 Portland Street, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Domestic
Date of designation
24 November 1987
Community
Aberystwyth
Unitary authority
Ceredigion
Country
Wales
Coordinates
52.41672, -4.08240
Cadw reference
10374

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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Cadw's description

Location

At the end of the terrace, the Salem Chapel set back to left.

History

Shown on 1834 map.

Exterior

Late Georgian pair with Victorian alterations, 3-storey and attic, 2-window scribed render and stucco fronts with cill band and channelled ground floor and dividing pilaster strip. Slate roof and brick chimney stacks; pitched roof slate hung dormers with bargeboards and paired horned sash windows. Three-storey splayed bay windows with cornices and panelled aprons to right of each front; left-hand windows with lugged architraves; horned sash windows to No 47, small-pane to No 49. Doric porches with fluted columns; entablature frieze to No 49; panelled reveals and half glazed doors. Cement render left side and rear with sash windows.

Reason for designation

Group value.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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