Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barclays Bank
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
- 52.41542, -4.08312
- Cadw reference
- 10401
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
Entered on the rounded corner with North Parade.
History
Built in 1877.
Exterior
Italianate Mannerist Style. Three-storeys with ashlar elevations and channelled granite ground floor; plinth and rusticated pilaster strips. Five-window front to Terrace Road, 1 window to corner and 3-windows to North Parade. Parapet, balustraded to the corner, with urn finials over modillion cornice and bolection moulded entablature. Giant order Ionic columns in antis on the corner, swagged capitals and balustraded first floor balcony over arched entrance with convex steps and panelled pediments, triangular and segmental to first floor with keystoned lintels and flind aprons; scrolled pediment to corner window. Horned sash windows to second floor, cross-frame windows to first floor. Convex balconies flanking central window on Terrace Road side. Overall modern fascia below cornice concealing original black lettering; arched ground-floor openings with modern windows.
Interior
Modernised interior.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Burtons BuildingNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- National Westminster BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- 20 North ParadeDomesticunder 1 mi
- 22 North ParadeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.