Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Edleston House (Royal Commission on Ancient & Historic Monuments of Wales)
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
- 52.41814, -4.08284
- Cadw reference
- 10391
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
Midway along Queen's Road; Bowling Green to the rear.
History
Built probably in 1898 as a nursing home by Dr Bonsall, now converted to use as public archive and offices.
Exterior
Detached
Colonial style symmetrical 2-storey, 3-window scribed cement render front with channelled ground floor. Steep hipped slate roof with wide swept boarded eaves; tall cement rendered brick chimney stacks. Tall cross frame French windows; central entrance with panelled double doors. The chief interest of this building is the overall, full height cast-iron Coalbrookdale verandah with decorative detail including finials, traceried spandrels, fluted columns to first floor and foliage capitals.
Three-window (4-window to first floor) side elevations with similar detail, 1-storey extension set back to right and modern extension to rear.
Interior
Interior retains moulded plaster corbels to arch at end of entrance hall.
Nearby in the register
- 1-5 Cambridge TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Terrace on Bath StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 43 Marine TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Including Richmond HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.